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Zhaoqing, 
China
607,624 people lived in Zhaoqing in 2025. It is the 894th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 157th 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 Zhaoqing grew
Count 10 people in Zhaoqing in 1980 and the same count gives 56 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 646,378 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Zhaoqing through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Zhaoqing 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 Zhaoqing; 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, Zhaoqing covered 92 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 20 km² of it. That is 32 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 6.3 times its size, and its people are 5.6 times as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in China
Its share of China
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Zhaoqing in 2025 — about 1 in 2,326.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 890 Kasur Pakistan609,468
- 891 Sfax Tunisia608,293
- 892 Beira Mozambique608,097
- 893 Chapainawabganj Bangladesh607,924
- 894 Zhaoqing607,624
- 895 Bihar Sharif India607,401
- 896 Zhangjiakou606,124
- 897 Shibin Al-Kom Egypt605,913
- 898 El Paso United States605,731
In China, 2025
- 867 Xiashan622,080
- 870 Hengshui618,465
- 882 Suining613,678
- 889 Xingning609,923
- 894 Zhaoqing607,624
- 896 Zhangjiakou606,124
- 899 Anqiu605,324
- 903 Changzhi602,771
- 907 Leshan600,101
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 Zhaoqing are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Zhaoqing 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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