What is the population of Sanming?
Sanming has a city population of 602,166. That is the population within the city's own boundary, not its wider metropolitan area. City population, GeoNames.
About Sanming
At 1,523 km from Beijing, Sanming is the seventh-largest city in Fujian with a population of 602,166. Nanping, the nearest listed city at 71 km away, has a smaller population of 467,875, while several other cities between 59,000 and 112,000 residents lie within 122 km.
This summary is AI-generated from the figures on this page. The figures themselves come from the sources cited beside each value.
Key Facts
Country
Region
Rank in region
#7of 25
Elevation
126 m
Approximate — modelled, not surveyed
Time zone
Asia/Shanghai
Coordinates
26.249, 117.619
Record updated
2021-10-08
Entry edited, not measured
City population, GeoNames. GeoNames publishes no year for its population figures, so “record updated” is when the entry was last edited — not the date the population was measured. Elevation is modelled from a digital elevation model rather than surveyed, so it is approximate.
Nearby Cities
All 2,091 in ChinaClosest listed cities by great-circle distance from the city centre.
Compared with the World's Largest Cities
City-proper population against the fifteen largest cities in the dataset.
| Name | City population |
|---|---|
| Shanghai | 24.9M |
| Beijing | 19M |
| Shenzhen | 17.5M |
| Guangzhou | 16.1M |
| Kinshasa | 16M |
| Istanbul | 15.7M |
| Lagos | 15.4M |
| Ho Chi Minh City | 14M |
| Chengdu | 13.6M |
| Lahore | 13M |
| Mumbai | 12.7M |
| São Paulo | 12.4M |
| Mexico City | 12.3M |
| Karachi | 11.6M |
| Tianjin | 11.1M |
| Sanming | 602K |
Sanming Population FAQ
Where is Sanming?
Sanming is in Fujian, China, 1,523 km from the capital, Beijing. Its coordinates are 26.249, 117.619.
How big is Sanming compared with other cities in China?
It is the 256th largest of the 2,091 cities of 15,000 or more listed in China, holding 0.0% of the national population.