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Lili, 
China
354,151 people lived in Lili in 2025. It is the 1613th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 296th 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 Lili's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Lili grew
Count 10 people in Lili in 2000 and the same count gives 64.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 474,682 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020. The UN first counts it as a city in 2000, 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
Lili through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Lili in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Lili 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, Lili covered 90 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 14 km² of it. That is 38 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown to 11.3 times its size, and its people are 6.5 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 Lili in 2025 — about 1 in 4,000.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1609 Massawa Eritrea354,657
- 1610 Anápolis Brazil354,576
- 1611 Yongzhou354,335
- 1612 Luhansk Ukraine354,296
- 1613 Lili354,151
- 1614 Burewala Pakistan354,057
- 1615 Kafr Al-Zaiyat Egypt354,037
- 1616 Bilbeis Egypt353,541
- 1617 Haifeng353,473
In China, 2025
- 1578 Qidong362,192
- 1581 Hulan361,540
- 1588 Danyang City358,677
- 1611 Yongzhou354,335
- 1613 Lili354,151
- 1617 Haifeng353,473
- 1632 Xinyang351,064
- 1642 Gaoyou348,058
- 1661 Guankou344,468
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 Lili are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2000 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 Lili 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