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Cities · China · 38.2° N, 109.8° E
Yulin, 
China
478,875 people lived in Yulin (38.2° N, 109.8° E) in 2025. It is the 1158th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 217th largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Yulin 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 Yulin grew
Where Yulin had 10 people in 1995, it had 45.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 462,388 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000. The UN first counts it as a city in 1995, 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
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: Yulin 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, Yulin covered 92 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 17 km² of it. That is 35 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 5.2 times its size, and its people are 4.5 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
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 2,941.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1154 Siuri India480,595
- 1155 Huai'an District480,263
- 1156 Kediri Indonesia480,038
- 1157 Gaomi479,056
- 1158 Yulin478,875
- 1159 Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago478,107
- 1160 Jombang Indonesia478,051
- 1161 Kryvyi Rih Ukraine477,940
- 1162 Gonda India477,697
In China, 2025
- 1147 Huzhou483,361
- 1153 Rizhao481,315
- 1155 Huai'an District480,263
- 1157 Gaomi479,056
- 1158 Yulin478,875
- 1164 Zigong477,271
- 1169 Jinzhong473,959
- 1178 Chuxiong471,251
- 1184 Lüliang469,647
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Yulin are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1995 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 →
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries