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Zhuzhou, 
China
979,244 people lived in Zhuzhou in 2025. It is the 527th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 77th 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 Zhuzhou grew
Where Zhuzhou had 10 people in 1975, it had 35.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 962,197 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
Zhuzhou through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Zhuzhou 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). Zhuzhou 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, Zhuzhou covered 130 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 31 km² of it. That is 32 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 times its size, and its people are 3.5 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 Zhuzhou, which is 979,244 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 Zhuzhou's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 523 Kharameh Iran983,056
- 524 Edmonton Canada981,522
- 525 Jambi Indonesia980,534
- 526 Tainan Taiwan979,987
- 527 Zhuzhou979,244
- 528 Pekalongan Indonesia978,519
- 529 Arequipa Peru977,496
- 530 Omsk Russia975,485
- 531 Guilin973,970
In China, 2025
- 512 Jinhua998,519
- 518 Shiyan992,165
- 520 Shunqing990,466
- 522 Linyi987,615
- 527 Zhuzhou979,244
- 531 Guilin973,970
- 534 Baoding970,162
- 536 Xiangyang969,011
- 537 Fushan968,359
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Zhuzhou 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 Zhuzhou 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