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Yueqing, 
China
1,160,214 people lived in Yueqing in 2025. It is the 439th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 64th largest in China.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Yueqing's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Yueqing grew
Count 10 people in Yueqing in 1975 and the same count gives 80.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.1 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2010 and 2015.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Yueqing through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Yueqing in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Yueqing 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, Yueqing covered 233 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 40 km² of it. That is 35 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 16.8 times its size, and its people are 8.1 times as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in China
Its share of China
Of every 1,000 people in China in 2025, 1 lived in Yueqing, which is 1.2 million people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in China; the coloured squares live in Yueqing. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 435 Hiroshima Japan1,185,788
- 436 Padang Indonesia1,184,342
- 437 Shymkent Kazakhstan1,184,337
- 438 Bandar Lampung Indonesia1,184,054
- 439 Yueqing1,160,214
- 440 Cabinda Angola1,157,345
- 441 Serrekunda Gambia1,156,903
- 442 El Mahalla El Kubra Egypt1,156,501
- 443 Jammu India1,154,466
In China, 2025
- 388 Anshan1,322,386
- 390 Yichang1,314,779
- 414 Zhangzhou1,232,911
- 424 Ganzhou1,216,248
- 439 Yueqing1,160,214
- 455 Huizhou1,137,670
- 469 Tianjia‘an1,100,258
- 470 Yancheng1,093,432
- 473 Kaifeng1,087,088
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 Yueqing 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 Yueqing 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