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Zhaodong, 
China
407,507 people lived in Zhaodong in 2025. It is the 1386th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 258th largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Zhaodong governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Zhaodong grew
Count 10 people in Zhaodong in 1975 and the same count gives 21.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 385,670 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
Zhaodong through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Zhaodong 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 Zhaodong; 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, Zhaodong covered 36 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 27 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown by 83%, and its people are 2.1 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 Zhaodong in 2025 — about 1 in 3,448.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1382 Makurdi Nigeria408,753
- 1383 Kendari Indonesia408,731
- 1384 Huế Vietnam408,692
- 1385 Waidhan India408,489
- 1386 Zhaodong407,507
- 1387 Hat Yai Thailand407,059
- 1388 Jalna India406,973
- 1389 Dhamar Yemen406,929
- 1390 Bhind India406,712
In China, 2025
- 1366 Jixi412,341
- 1370 Tashikeruike411,163
- 1376 Huangyan District410,213
- 1380 Dongtai409,015
- 1386 Zhaodong407,507
- 1394 Daqing405,480
- 1395 Jiashan405,454
- 1418 Wuzhou398,593
- 1422 Sanya398,270
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 Zhaodong 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 Zhaodong 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