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Zoucheng, 
China
447,484 people lived in Zoucheng in 2025. It is the 1243rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 234th 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 Zoucheng grew
Count 10 people in Zoucheng in 1975 and the same count gives 41.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 315,853 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Zoucheng through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Zoucheng in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Zoucheng 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, Zoucheng covered 109 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 25 km² of it. That is 56 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4 times its size, and its people are 4.2 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 Zoucheng in 2025 — about 1 in 3,125.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1239 Penza Russia449,851
- 1240 Ramadi Iraq449,183
- 1241 Mannheim Germany448,203
- 1242 Canning India447,522
- 1243 Zoucheng447,484
- 1244 Kolwezi Democratic Republic of the Congo446,709
- 1245 Sirajganj Bangladesh446,632
- 1246 Parbhani India446,508
- 1247 Pematang Siantar Indonesia446,269
In China, 2025
- 1204 Yanji461,800
- 1216 Jiaozhou457,288
- 1232 Jiangyang452,500
- 1238 Heyuan449,860
- 1243 Zoucheng447,484
- 1249 Chengde444,971
- 1252 Chaoyang443,864
- 1265 Zhanjiang440,587
- 1282 Guang'an436,199
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 Zoucheng 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 Zoucheng 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