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Zhumadian, 
China
727,923 people lived in Zhumadian in 2025. It is the 737th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 121st 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.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Zhumadian grew
For every 10 people in Zhumadian in 1975, there were 76.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 580,805 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: 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
Zhumadian through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Zhumadian in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: China and its 2,082 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Shanghai). Zhumadian is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Zhumadian covered 82 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 20 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 to 3.1 times its size, and its people are 7.7 times as many.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in China
Its share of China
Of every 1,000 people in China in 2025, 1 lived in Zhumadian, which is 727,923 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 Zhumadian's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 733 Sahiwal Pakistan730,463
- 734 Lu'an729,998
- 735 Tulungagung Indonesia728,924
- 736 Balikpapan Indonesia728,771
- 737 Zhumadian727,923
- 738 Al Ahsa Saudi Arabia725,760
- 739 Suqian725,070
- 740 Louhajang Bangladesh725,057
- 741 Kamina Democratic Republic of the Congo724,982
In China, 2025
- 718 Yichun745,754
- 725 Dandong738,721
- 730 Benxi734,933
- 734 Lu'an729,998
- 737 Zhumadian727,923
- 739 Suqian725,070
- 744 Yingxia719,432
- 745 Gulin718,364
- 747 Linchuan718,050
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 Zhumadian 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 Zhumadian 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