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Luhe, 
China
551,106 people lived in Luhe in 2025. It is the 997th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 179th 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 Luhe's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Luhe grew
For every 10 people in Luhe in 1975, there were 37.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 507,897 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1985 and 1990.
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
Luhe through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Luhe 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 Luhe; 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, Luhe covered 108 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 29 km² of it. That is 52 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.2 times its size, and its people are 3.8 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 Luhe in 2025 — about 1 in 2,564.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 993 Yaroslavl Russia553,086
- 994 Tampa United States551,988
- 995 Panjin551,709
- 996 Azamgarh India551,621
- 997 Luhe551,106
- 998 Boumerdes Algeria550,700
- 999 Bahraich India550,317
- 1000 Riga Latvia550,267
- 1001 Sheffield United Kingdom549,695
In China, 2025
- 983 Yuncheng558,182
- 985 Shangrao556,394
- 988 Yitang555,576
- 995 Panjin551,709
- 997 Luhe551,106
- 1006 Meishan546,811
- 1007 Huangdao District545,983
- 1009 Wanzhou544,748
- 1012 Huazhou543,709
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Luhe 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 Luhe 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