What is the population of Shangyu?
Shangyu has a city population of 770,000. That is the population within the city's own boundary, not its wider metropolitan area. City population, GeoNames.
About Shangyu
Positioned 1,173 km from Beijing, Shangyu is home to 770,000 people and ranks 15th among Zhejiang's 40 cities. The city sits within a cluster of larger urban centres: Shaoxing, with 2.3 million residents, lies 28 km away, while Cixi (1.46 million) is 40 km distant. Lianghu, a city of 155,000, is only 4 km away.
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
#15of 40
Elevation
13 m
Approximate — modelled, not surveyed
Time zone
Asia/Shanghai
Coordinates
30.016, 120.871
Record updated
2021-09-19
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 |
| Shangyu | 770K |
Shangyu Population FAQ
Where is Shangyu?
Shangyu is in Zhejiang, China, 1,173 km from the capital, Beijing. Its coordinates are 30.016, 120.871.
How big is Shangyu compared with other cities in China?
It is the 216th largest of the 2,091 cities of 15,000 or more listed in China, holding 0.1% of the national population.