What is the population of Yinchuan?
Yinchuan has a city population of 1,487,579. That is the population within the city's own boundary, not its wider metropolitan area. City population, GeoNames.
About Yinchuan
The second-largest city in Ningxia, Yinchuan has a population of 1,487,579. Situated 887 km from Beijing, it stands at an elevation of 1,117 m above sea level. Several smaller cities lie nearby: Xigang (112,061 people, 11 km away), Yanghe (67,901, 21 km), and Wangyuan (42,022, 9 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
#2of 25
Elevation
1,117 m
Approximate — modelled, not surveyed
Time zone
Asia/Shanghai
Coordinates
38.468, 106.273
Record updated
2026-04-13
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 |
| Yinchuan | 1.49M |
Yinchuan Population FAQ
Where is Yinchuan?
Yinchuan is in Ningxia, China, 887 km from the capital, Beijing. Its coordinates are 38.468, 106.273.
How big is Yinchuan compared with other cities in China?
It is the 101st largest of the 2,091 cities of 15,000 or more listed in China, holding 0.1% of the national population.