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Lüliang, 
China
469,647 people lived in Lüliang in 2025. It is the 1184th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 221st largest in China.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Lüliang 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 Lüliang grew
For every 10 people in Lüliang in 1990, there were 69.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 469,159 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005. The UN first counts it as a city in 1990, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Lüliang through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Lüliang in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
China · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Lüliang 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, Lüliang covered 39 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.4 km² of it. That is 18 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 4 times its size, and its people are 6.9 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 Lüliang in 2025 — about 1 in 3,030.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1180 Kemerovo Russia470,175
- 1181 Faqous Egypt470,110
- 1182 Cox's Bazar Bangladesh470,100
- 1183 Sitapur India469,750
- 1184 Lüliang469,647
- 1185 Tétouan Morocco469,642
- 1186 Kurnool India468,997
- 1187 Changge468,159
- 1188 Brighton United Kingdom467,937
In China, 2025
- 1158 Yulin478,875
- 1164 Zigong477,271
- 1169 Jinzhong473,959
- 1178 Chuxiong471,251
- 1184 Lüliang469,647
- 1187 Changge468,159
- 1189 Beilun District467,912
- 1190 Yangquan467,148
- 1194 Tongxiang465,450
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 Lüliang are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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 Lüliang 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