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Liupanshui, 
China
766,243 people lived in Liupanshui in 2025. It is the 696th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 110th largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Liupanshui governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Liupanshui grew
For every 10 people in Liupanshui in 1975, there were 150.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 734,413 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
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
Liupanshui through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Liupanshui in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Liupanshui 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, Liupanshui covered 69 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 13 km² of it. That is 16 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 12.6 times its size, and its people are 6.4 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
Of every 1,000 people in China in 2025, 1 lived in Liupanshui, which is 766,243 people.
How to read this: shrink China to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Liupanshui; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 692 Cape Town India770,260
- 693 Nanded India770,215
- 694 Eskisehir Türkiye766,333
- 695 Yiwu766,253
- 696 Liupanshui766,243
- 697 George Town Malaysia765,884
- 698 Hermosillo Mexico765,445
- 699 Sangli India761,451
- 700 Newcastle upon Tyne United Kingdom760,969
In China, 2025
- 682 Pingdingshan779,154
- 686 Yueyang775,434
- 687 Changshu774,010
- 695 Yiwu766,253
- 696 Liupanshui766,243
- 701 Yangzhou759,812
- 702 Mudanjiang758,800
- 707 Xinyu756,365
- 711 Xingtai754,483
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 Liupanshui 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 Liupanshui 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