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Lieshan, 
China
323,702 people lived in Lieshan in 2025. It is the 1773rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 327th largest in China.
Like every city on this site, Lieshan is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Lieshan grew
Count 10 people in Lieshan in 1975 and the same count gives 27.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 262,894 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Lieshan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Lieshan 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). Lieshan 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, Lieshan covered 69 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 13 km² of it. That is 41 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.8 times its size, and its people are 2.8 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 Lieshan in 2025 — about 1 in 4,348.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1769 Uruapan Mexico324,219
- 1770 Pandeglang Indonesia324,139
- 1771 Khorramabad Iran324,110
- 1772 Montpellier France324,059
- 1773 Lieshan323,702
- 1774 Bodeh Indonesia323,511
- 1775 Huangshan323,492
- 1776 Hải Dương Vietnam323,442
- 1777 Lucena Philippines323,308
In China, 2025
- 1755 Baoshan327,416
- 1757 Xiangtan326,965
- 1765 Jiaonan325,383
- 1768 Kaiping324,576
- 1773 Lieshan323,702
- 1775 Huangshan323,492
- 1790 Chuzhou321,424
- 1796 Aksu320,179
- 1803 Zhangqiu319,153
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Lieshan 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 Lieshan 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