How Population of Different Countries Fit into China

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One-in-six humans on Earth live in China. To help put this massive country into perspective, we’ve compared the population of Chinese provinces with equivalent countries.

The maps below show Chinese provinces compared with different nations.

Comparing Chinese provinces with countries

Population distribution of China in units of the United States

About four countries like the United States fit into China.

Population distribution of China in a unit of Canada’s

Thirty-seven Canadas fit into China.

Population of World in Units of Chinas

On the world map below, the global population is divided into 5.5 parts, each equal in population to China.

Chinese Province	Population (millions)	Comparable Countries	Population (millions)
Guangdong	110	Philippines	103.2
Shandong	99.5	Vietnam	92.7
Henan	95.3	Egypt	90.2
Sichuan	82.6	Germany	82.3
Jiangsu	80	Turkey	79.8
Hebei	74.7	Thailand	69
Hunan	68.2	United Kingdom	65.6
Anhui	62	France	64.5
Zhejiang	55.9	South Africa	55.6
Hubei	58.8	South Korea	51.2
Guangxi	48.4	Colombia	48.7
Liaoning	43.8	Spain	46.4
Yunnan	47.7	Kenya	45.4
Jiangxi	45.9	Argentina	43.6
Shaanxi	38.1	Poland	38
Heilongjiang	38	Iraq	37.9
Shanxi	36.8	Canada	36.2
Fujian	38.7	Afghanistan	34.6
Guizhou	35.5	Morocco	34.5
Chongqing	26.1	Saudi Arabia	31.7
Gansu	26.1	Yemen	29.1
Jilin	27.3	Ghana	27.6
Shanghai	24.2	Romania, Croatia	24.5
Xinjiang	24	Australia	24.4
Inner Mongolia	25.2	Denmark,  Luxembourg, Netherlands	23.3
Beijing	21.7	Finland, Sweden, Norway	20.7
Tianjin	15.6	Slovakia, Czech Republic	16
Hainan	9.1	Austria	8.7
Hong Kong	7.3	Jamaica, Costa Rica	7.7
Ningxia	6.7	El Salvador	6.3
Qinghai	5.9	Singapore	5.6
Xizang (Tibet)	3.3	Uruguay	3.5
Macau	0.61	Montenegro	0.62