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Tianmen — UN urban centre

334,299

Tianmen: 334,299 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,713 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10196; 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: 30.661, 113.15. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197568,510Estimate
198088,041Estimate
1985113,308Estimate
1990143,200Estimate
1995193,152Estimate
2000280,224Estimate
2005266,285Estimate
2010236,148Estimate
2015287,811Estimate
2020343,070Estimate
2025334,299Estimate
2030323,656Projection
2035311,838Projection
2040301,309Projection
2045291,456Projection
2050279,566Projection

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