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Yongzhou, 
China
354,335 people lived in Yongzhou in 2025. It is the 1611th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 295th largest in China.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Yongzhou grew
For every 10 people in Yongzhou in 1985, there were 56.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 317,800 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000. The UN first counts it as a city in 1985, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Yongzhou through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Yongzhou in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Yongzhou is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of China in 2025, 2,082 in all, led by Shanghai, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Yongzhou covered 48 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 32 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 4.2 times its size, and its people are 5.7 times as many.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in China
Its share of China
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Yongzhou in 2025 — about 1 in 4,000.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1607 Nandail Bangladesh354,872
- 1608 Balyana Egypt354,769
- 1609 Massawa Eritrea354,657
- 1610 Anápolis Brazil354,576
- 1611 Yongzhou354,335
- 1612 Luhansk Ukraine354,296
- 1613 Lili354,151
- 1614 Burewala Pakistan354,057
- 1615 Kafr Al-Zaiyat Egypt354,037
In China, 2025
- 1577 Linhai362,290
- 1578 Qidong362,192
- 1581 Hulan361,540
- 1588 Danyang City358,677
- 1611 Yongzhou354,335
- 1613 Lili354,151
- 1617 Haifeng353,473
- 1632 Xinyang351,064
- 1642 Gaoyou348,058
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Yongzhou are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 to 2025, then projection to 2050. Projected years are drawn hatched, and the UN publishes no range of uncertainty for a city. What a city means here, how the UN measures one, and why that number can differ from the one Yongzhou publishes about itself: how the figures here are put together.
Sources: UN WUP 2025 · Natural Earth · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries