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Leshan, 
China
600,101 people lived in Leshan in 2025. It is the 907th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 161st largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Leshan governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Leshan grew
Count 10 people in Leshan in 1975 and the same count gives 59.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 514,535 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1985 and 1990.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Leshan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Leshan in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Leshan is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of China in 2025, 2,082 in all, led by Shanghai, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Leshan covered 71 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 12 km² of it. That is 20 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 6.2 times its size, and its people are 3.4 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in China
Its share of China
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Leshan in 2025 — about 1 in 2,381.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 903 Changzhi602,771
- 904 Tyumen Russia602,535
- 905 Khan Yunis Palestine601,421
- 906 Jangalpara India600,501
- 907 Leshan600,101
- 908 Maoming599,504
- 909 Chifeng599,299
- 910 Londrina Brazil598,731
- 911 Ado Ekiti Nigeria598,230
In China, 2025
- 894 Zhaoqing607,624
- 896 Zhangjiakou606,124
- 899 Anqiu605,324
- 903 Changzhi602,771
- 907 Leshan600,101
- 908 Maoming599,504
- 909 Chifeng599,299
- 913 Jiujiang597,681
- 914 Huaibei596,613
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Leshan are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1975 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 Leshan 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