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Huaiyang — UN urban centre

149,755

Huaiyang: 149,755 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,045 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10040; 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: 33.7368, 114.8688. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975174,258Estimate
1980175,680Estimate
1985183,131Estimate
1990195,105Estimate
1995212,319Estimate
2000180,302Estimate
2005177,381Estimate
2010170,073Estimate
2015159,756Estimate
2020154,807Estimate
2025149,755Estimate
2030143,863Projection
2035134,561Projection
2040127,568Projection
2045121,169Projection
2050115,491Projection

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