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Zhenjiang, 
China
781,639 people lived in Zhenjiang in 2025. It is the 679th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 105th largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Zhenjiang 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 Zhenjiang grew
Where Zhenjiang had 10 people in 1975, it had 25.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 730,235 people in 2050.
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
Zhenjiang through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Zhenjiang 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 Zhenjiang; 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, Zhenjiang covered 73 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 20 km² of it. That is 26 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.6 times its size, and its people are 2.6 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
Of every 1,000 people in China in 2025, 1 lived in Zhenjiang, which is 781,639 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 Zhenjiang's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 675 Kandy Sri Lanka785,519
- 676 Krasnodar Russia783,125
- 677 Yingkou782,210
- 678 Nanyang782,146
- 679 Zhenjiang781,639
- 680 Jalgaon India781,486
- 681 Muscat Oman780,545
- 682 Pingdingshan779,154
- 683 Rourkela India776,631
In China, 2025
- 673 Yingkou786,031
- 674 Suzhou785,949
- 677 Yingkou782,210
- 678 Nanyang782,146
- 679 Zhenjiang781,639
- 682 Pingdingshan779,154
- 686 Yueyang775,434
- 687 Changshu774,010
- 695 Yiwu766,253
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 Zhenjiang 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 Zhenjiang 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