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Yuncheng, 
China
558,182 people lived in Yuncheng in 2025. It is the 983rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 175th largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Yuncheng is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Yuncheng grew
For every 10 people in Yuncheng in 1975, there were 65.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 514,632 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
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
Yuncheng through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Yuncheng in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Yuncheng 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, Yuncheng covered 57 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 18 km² of it. That is 32 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.7 times its size, and its people are 6.5 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 Yuncheng in 2025 — about 1 in 2,564.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 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
- 987 Ambon Indonesia555,651
In China, 2025
- 951 Beihai577,338
- 952 Binzhou576,823
- 974 Shengze562,800
- 982 Yulin558,277
- 983 Yuncheng558,182
- 985 Shangrao556,394
- 988 Yitang555,576
- 995 Panjin551,709
- 997 Luhe551,106
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 Yuncheng 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 Yuncheng 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