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Zhangzhou, 
China
1,232,911 people lived in Zhangzhou in 2025. It is the 414th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 62nd 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 Zhangzhou grew
For every 10 people in Zhangzhou in 1975, there were 44.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.1 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2000 and 2005.
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
Zhangzhou through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Zhangzhou in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Zhangzhou 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, Zhangzhou covered 279 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 52 km² of it. That is 42 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 12 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
Of every 1,000 people in China in 2025, 1 lived in Zhangzhou, which is 1.2 million people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in China, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Zhangzhou's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 410 Montevideo Uruguay1,240,244
- 411 Tripoli Libya1,239,823
- 412 Gyanpur India1,237,249
- 413 Amsterdam Netherlands1,235,985
- 414 Zhangzhou1,232,911
- 415 Kota India1,232,364
- 416 Copenhagen Denmark1,229,370
- 417 Torreón Mexico1,227,850
- 418 Liverpool United Kingdom1,227,470
In China, 2025
- 375 Huaiyin District1,349,827
- 385 Zhongshan1,326,078
- 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
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 Zhangzhou 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 Zhangzhou 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