What is the population of Luzhou?
Luzhou has a city population of 998,900. That is the population within the city's own boundary, not its wider metropolitan area. City population, GeoNames.
About Luzhou
The 554th-largest city in the world by population, Luzhou has 998,900 residents and ranks ninth among Sichuan's cities. Located 1,583 km from Beijing, it sits at 256 m elevation. Four cities with populations between 50,000 and 132,000 lie within 34 km, with Naxi the nearest at 14 km.
This summary is AI-generated from the figures on this page. The figures themselves come from the sources cited beside each value.
Key Facts
Country
Region
Rank in region
#9of 64
Elevation
256 m
Approximate — modelled, not surveyed
Time zone
Asia/Shanghai
Coordinates
28.890, 105.426
Record updated
2024-11-12
Entry edited, not measured
City population, GeoNames. GeoNames publishes no year for its population figures, so “record updated” is when the entry was last edited — not the date the population was measured. Elevation is modelled from a digital elevation model rather than surveyed, so it is approximate.
Nearby Cities
All 2,091 in ChinaClosest listed cities by great-circle distance from the city centre.
Compared with the World's Largest Cities
City-proper population against the fifteen largest cities in the dataset.
| Name | City population |
|---|---|
| Shanghai | 24.9M |
| Beijing | 19M |
| Shenzhen | 17.5M |
| Guangzhou | 16.1M |
| Kinshasa | 16M |
| Istanbul | 15.7M |
| Lagos | 15.4M |
| Ho Chi Minh City | 14M |
| Chengdu | 13.6M |
| Lahore | 13M |
| Mumbai | 12.7M |
| São Paulo | 12.4M |
| Mexico City | 12.3M |
| Karachi | 11.6M |
| Tianjin | 11.1M |
| Luzhou | 999K |
Luzhou Population FAQ
Where is Luzhou?
Luzhou is in Sichuan, China, 1,583 km from the capital, Beijing. Its coordinates are 28.890, 105.426.
How big is Luzhou compared with other cities in China?
It is the 176th largest of the 2,091 cities of 15,000 or more listed in China, holding 0.1% of the national population.