Liangping — UN urban centre
Liangping: 108,564 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #5,692 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 8984; territory: China (CHN). UN source workbook.
Method: Degree of Urbanisation (contiguous 1 km2 cells, density 1,500+ people/km2, total 50,000+). This is a source-defined urban centre, not a municipality or province. No association with a separate administrative entity is inferred from proximity or name.
Source centroid: 30.6689, 107.7874. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 150,470 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 153,801 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 156,388 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 157,544 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 150,695 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 135,050 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 128,281 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 124,871 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 119,664 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 111,476 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 108,564 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 102,094 | Projection |
| 2035 | 99,648 | Projection |
| 2040 | 96,775 | Projection |
| 2045 | 94,104 | Projection |
| 2050 | 90,776 | Projection |
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