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Suizhou — UN urban centre

282,058

Suizhou: 282,058 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,062 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10056; 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: 31.7128, 113.3895. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975502,882Estimate
1980504,648Estimate
1985493,200Estimate
1990481,931Estimate
1995464,272Estimate
2000434,405Estimate
2005402,963Estimate
2010376,669Estimate
2015335,912Estimate
2020290,447Estimate
2025282,058Estimate
2030267,746Projection
2035258,413Projection
2040245,595Projection
2045235,616Projection
2050178,729Projection

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