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Lishui, 
China
416,469 people lived in Lishui in 2025. It is the 1350th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 251st largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Lishui 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 Lishui grew
Count 10 people in Lishui in 1975 and the same count gives 68.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 408,361 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: 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
Lishui through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Lishui in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 2,082 cities in China in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Shanghai. The ringed dot in colour is Lishui; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Lishui covered 39 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.1 km² of it. That is 19 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 6.8 times its size, and its people are 6.8 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 Lishui in 2025 — about 1 in 3,448.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1346 Eldoret Kenya418,175
- 1347 Chandrapur India416,903
- 1348 Taixing416,677
- 1349 Uvira Democratic Republic of the Congo416,523
- 1350 Lishui416,469
- 1351 Aktobe Kazakhstan416,455
- 1352 Yixing415,587
- 1353 Kafr Al Sheikh Egypt415,494
- 1354 Fuyang415,492
In China, 2025
- 1321 Jingdezhen423,386
- 1324 Shaoguan422,509
- 1328 Longyan422,165
- 1348 Taixing416,677
- 1350 Lishui416,469
- 1352 Yixing415,587
- 1354 Fuyang415,492
- 1366 Jixi412,341
- 1370 Tashikeruike411,163
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 Lishui 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 Lishui 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