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Zucheng, 
China
654,599 people lived in Zucheng in 2025. It is the 831st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 144th largest in China.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Zucheng's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Zucheng grew
Count 10 people in Zucheng in 1995 and the same count gives 68.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 599,297 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000. The UN first counts it as a city in 1995, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Zucheng through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Zucheng 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). Zucheng 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, Zucheng covered 165 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 37 km² of it. That is 56 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 6.1 times its size, and its people are 6.8 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in China
Its share of China
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Zucheng in 2025 — about 1 in 2,174.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 827 Siliguri India658,183
- 828 Bacolod Philippines655,836
- 829 Volgograd Russia655,020
- 830 Tamale Ghana654,868
- 831 Zucheng654,599
- 832 Antwerp Belgium652,506
- 833 Changde651,562
- 834 Mazar i sharif Afghanistan651,287
- 835 Nottingham United Kingdom649,610
In China, 2025
- 804 Bazhong City675,756
- 808 Jiamusi673,406
- 815 Fushun665,286
- 819 Leiyang662,696
- 831 Zucheng654,599
- 833 Changde651,562
- 846 Jiangyin637,502
- 849 Mianyang636,781
- 852 Liaoyang635,212
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 Zucheng are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1995 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 Zucheng 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