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Cities · China · 22.6° N, 110.2° E
Yulin, 
China
558,277 people lived in Yulin (22.6° N, 110.2° E) in 2025. It is the 982nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 174th 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 Yulin grew
For every 10 people in Yulin in 1975, there were 107.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 526,996 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Yulin through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Yulin in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 2,082 cities in China in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Shanghai. The ringed dot in colour is Yulin; 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, Yulin covered 121 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 28 km² of it. That is 50 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 7.7 times its size, and its people are 10.8 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 Yulin in 2025 — about 1 in 2,564.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 978 Otsu Japan559,798
- 979 Qarshi Uzbekistan559,475
- 980 Chhapra India559,249
- 981 Davanagere India559,117
- 982 Yulin558,277
- 983 Yuncheng558,182
- 984 Kalyanpur India557,803
- 985 Shangrao556,394
- 986 Malacca City Malaysia555,703
In China, 2025
- 936 Cangzhou585,507
- 951 Beihai577,338
- 952 Binzhou576,823
- 974 Shengze562,800
- 982 Yulin558,277
- 983 Yuncheng558,182
- 985 Shangrao556,394
- 988 Yitang555,576
- 995 Panjin551,709
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Yulin 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 Yulin 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 →
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