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Zhoukou, 
China
689,599 people lived in Zhoukou in 2025. It is the 784th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 134th 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 Zhoukou grew
Where Zhoukou had 10 people in 1975, it had 26.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 567,086 people in 2050.
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
Zhoukou through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Zhoukou in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Zhoukou 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, Zhoukou covered 104 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 25 km² of it. That is 36 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.1 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
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Zhoukou in 2025 — about 1 in 2,041.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 780 Cheongju-si South Korea690,333
- 781 Cuito Angola689,795
- 782 Sorocaba Brazil689,775
- 783 Zurich Switzerland689,657
- 784 Zhoukou689,599
- 785 Fresno United States685,330
- 786 Beni Suef Egypt684,414
- 787 Okara Pakistan683,747
- 788 Akola India683,391
In China, 2025
- 763 Qingyuan702,881
- 767 Deyang700,386
- 772 Donghe696,169
- 776 Dazhou693,707
- 784 Zhoukou689,599
- 791 Longgang681,306
- 794 Youyi680,993
- 799 Jingzhou678,632
- 800 Ankang678,483
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 Zhoukou 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 Zhoukou 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