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Lufeng, 
China
312,588 people lived in Lufeng in 2025. It is the 1835th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 340th 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 Lufeng grew
Count 10 people in Lufeng in 1975 and the same count gives 29.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 336,261 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010.
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
Lufeng through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Lufeng 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). Lufeng 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, Lufeng covered 35 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.5 km² of it. That is 21 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.1 times its size, and its people are 2.9 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 Lufeng in 2025 — about 1 in 4,545.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1831 Karaganda Kazakhstan313,529
- 1832 Samalut Egypt313,324
- 1833 Girza Egypt312,801
- 1834 Uberaba Brazil312,745
- 1835 Lufeng312,588
- 1836 Kebumen Indonesia312,542
- 1837 Bidar India312,534
- 1838 Antsiramandroso Madagascar312,434
- 1839 Vizianagaram India312,315
In China, 2025
- 1824 Nankang314,564
- 1825 Ningde314,107
- 1827 Hezhou313,994
- 1829 Raoping313,705
- 1835 Lufeng312,588
- 1853 Emeishan310,503
- 1858 Huairou309,856
- 1862 Xichang309,170
- 1865 Cangnan308,925
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 Lufeng 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 Lufeng 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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