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Gong'an — UN urban centre

129,211

Gong'an: 129,211 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,729 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10080; 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: 30.0622, 112.2219. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975178,013Estimate
1980180,290Estimate
1985181,942Estimate
1990183,238Estimate
1995171,465Estimate
2000151,021Estimate
2005172,408Estimate
2010160,887Estimate
2015146,008Estimate
2020132,949Estimate
2025129,211Estimate
2030124,749Projection
2035118,914Projection
2040114,479Projection
2045110,296Projection
205093,238Projection

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