What is the population of Sanya?
Sanya has a city population of 1,031,396. That is the population within the city's own boundary, not its wider metropolitan area. City population, GeoNames.
About Sanya
The second city in Hainan has a population of 1,031,396. Sanya sits 2,497 km from Beijing and lies at 1 m elevation. Wanning, with 545,992 residents, is the nearest major city at 110 km away; Wuzhishan (112,269 people) lies 59 km distant.
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
#2of 30
Elevation
1 m
Approximate — modelled, not surveyed
Time zone
Asia/Shanghai
Coordinates
18.254, 109.509
Record updated
2024-02-08
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 |
| Sanya | 1.03M |
Sanya Population FAQ
Where is Sanya?
Sanya is in Hainan, China, 2,497 km from the capital, Beijing. Its coordinates are 18.254, 109.509.
How big is Sanya compared with other cities in China?
It is the 166th largest of the 2,091 cities of 15,000 or more listed in China, holding 0.1% of the national population.