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Leiyang, 
China
662,696 people lived in Leiyang in 2025. It is the 819th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 143rd largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Leiyang governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Leiyang grew
For every 10 people in Leiyang in 1985, there were 62.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 601,080 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000. The UN first counts it as a city in 1985, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Leiyang through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Leiyang in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 2,082 cities in China in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Shanghai. The ringed dot in colour is Leiyang; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Leiyang covered 60 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 16 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 4.7 times its size, and its people are 6.2 times as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in China
Its share of China
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Leiyang in 2025 — about 1 in 2,128.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 815 Fushun665,286
- 816 Anand India664,789
- 817 St. Louis United States663,392
- 818 Blida Algeria663,070
- 819 Leiyang662,696
- 820 Wuppertal Germany662,663
- 821 Kannur India662,128
- 822 Jhansi India662,059
- 823 Bogura Bangladesh661,378
In China, 2025
- 803 Shangqiu676,590
- 804 Bazhong City675,756
- 808 Jiamusi673,406
- 815 Fushun665,286
- 819 Leiyang662,696
- 831 Zucheng654,599
- 833 Changde651,562
- 846 Jiangyin637,502
- 849 Mianyang636,781
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Leiyang are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 to 2025, then projection to 2050. Projected years are drawn hatched, and the UN publishes no range of uncertainty for a city. What a city means here, how the UN measures one, and why that number can differ from the one Leiyang publishes about itself: how the figures here are put together.
Sources: UN WUP 2025 · Natural Earth · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries