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Liyang, 
China
363,285 people lived in Liyang in 2025. It is the 1574th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 289th largest in China.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Liyang grew
Count 10 people in Liyang in 1995 and the same count gives 39.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 337,445 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010. The UN first counts it as a city in 1995, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Liyang through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Liyang in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Liyang 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, Liyang covered 72 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 16 km² of it. That is 45 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 4.9 times its size, and its people are 4 times as many.
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 Liyang in 2025 — about 1 in 3,846.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1570 Yavatmal India363,908
- 1571 Borama Somalia363,753
- 1572 Vinnytsia Ukraine363,466
- 1573 Belgorod Russia363,411
- 1574 Liyang363,285
- 1575 Xingping363,206
- 1576 Jakdo-dong North Korea363,071
- 1577 Linhai362,290
- 1578 Qidong362,192
In China, 2025
- 1549 Shuyang368,686
- 1552 Shihezi367,883
- 1555 Xianyou367,523
- 1562 Tong'an366,871
- 1574 Liyang363,285
- 1575 Xingping363,206
- 1577 Linhai362,290
- 1578 Qidong362,192
- 1581 Hulan361,540
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 Liyang are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1995 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 Liyang 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 →
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