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Liaocheng, 
China
519,411 people lived in Liaocheng in 2025. It is the 1065th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 193rd largest in China.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Liaocheng's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Liaocheng grew
Where Liaocheng had 10 people in 1980, it had 51.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 475,510 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Liaocheng through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Liaocheng in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: China and its 2,082 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Shanghai). Liaocheng is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Liaocheng covered 105 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 27 km² of it. That is 52 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 3.8 times its size, and its people are 5.2 times as many.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in China
Its share of China
Fewer than 1 in every 1,000 people in China lived in Liaocheng in 2025 — about 1 in 2,703.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1061 Shahkot Pakistan520,664
- 1062 Liling520,239
- 1063 Constantine Algeria519,932
- 1064 Latur India519,913
- 1065 Liaocheng519,411
- 1066 Utrecht Netherlands519,200
- 1067 Bhore India518,289
- 1068 Juiz de Fora Brazil518,218
- 1069 Dongsheng518,080
In China, 2025
- 1044 Bozhou531,429
- 1050 Beibei527,806
- 1051 Langfang527,161
- 1062 Liling520,239
- 1065 Liaocheng519,411
- 1069 Dongsheng518,080
- 1078 Zhuji515,549
- 1079 Chenzhou514,905
- 1083 Tongliao512,445
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 Liaocheng are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Liaocheng 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