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Changling — UN urban centre

63,413

Changling: 63,413 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #9,766 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10164; 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: 31.5148, 113.5746. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197584,453Estimate
198092,662Estimate
198598,638Estimate
1990103,546Estimate
1995106,197Estimate
200094,500Estimate
200587,739Estimate
201081,565Estimate
201574,999Estimate
202065,146Estimate
202563,413Estimate
203061,324Projection
203559,337Projection
204057,095Projection
204553,733Projection
205051,309Projection

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