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Liaoyang, 
China
635,212 people lived in Liaoyang in 2025. It is the 852nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 148th largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Liaoyang is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Liaoyang grew
Count 10 people in Liaoyang in 1975 and the same count gives 14.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 560,919 people in 2050.
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
Liaoyang through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Liaoyang 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). Liaoyang 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, Liaoyang covered 98 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 28 km² of it. That is 44 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.1 times its size, and its people have grown by 47%.
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 Liaoyang in 2025 — about 1 in 2,222.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 848 Jeonju South Korea637,082
- 849 Mianyang636,781
- 850 Kuningan Indonesia636,447
- 851 Long Xuyên Vietnam635,490
- 852 Liaoyang635,212
- 853 Huambo Angola634,669
- 854 Fangshan633,763
- 855 Al-Fashir Sudan633,077
- 856 Bordeaux France631,551
In China, 2025
- 831 Zucheng654,599
- 833 Changde651,562
- 846 Jiangyin637,502
- 849 Mianyang636,781
- 852 Liaoyang635,212
- 854 Fangshan633,763
- 857 Yuxi631,209
- 859 Qujing630,828
- 866 Pingxiang623,055
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 Liaoyang 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 Liaoyang 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