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Yuanlin City, 
Taiwan
310,380 people lived in Yuanlin City in 2025. It is the 1855th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 8th largest in Taiwan.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Yuanlin City governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Yuanlin City grew
For every 10 people in Yuanlin City in 1975, there were 10.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 208,472 people in 2050.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Yuanlin City through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Yuanlin City in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Taiwan · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 21 cities in Taiwan in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Taipei. The ringed dot in colour is Yuanlin City; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Yuanlin City covered 123 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 28 km² of it. That is 89 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 9 by 9 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.3 times its size, and its people have grown by 8%.
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 Taiwan
Its share of Taiwan
Of every 100 people in Taiwan in 2025, 1 lived in Yuanlin City, which is 310,380 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Taiwan, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Yuanlin City's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1851 Campos dos Goytacazes Brazil310,590
- 1852 Sungai Petani Malaysia310,566
- 1853 Emeishan China310,503
- 1854 Kanggye North Korea310,432
- 1855 Yuanlin City310,380
- 1856 Beed India310,278
- 1857 Taubaté Brazil310,170
- 1858 Huairou China309,856
- 1859 Kindu Democratic Republic of the Congo309,727
In Taiwan, 2025
- 526 Tainan979,987
- 773 Hsinchu695,677
- 1206 Zhanghua City461,552
- 1280 Chiayi436,393
- 1855 Yuanlin City310,380
- 3451 Pingtung City175,377
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 Yuanlin City are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1975 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 Yuanlin City 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