Xiantao — UN urban centre
Xiantao: 297,859 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,938 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10336; 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: 30.3736, 113.4527. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 196,727 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 232,378 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 282,711 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 322,901 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 369,761 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 437,459 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 410,700 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 394,948 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 365,701 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 306,571 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 297,859 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 287,479 | Projection |
| 2035 | 266,687 | Projection |
| 2040 | 253,448 | Projection |
| 2045 | 241,354 | Projection |
| 2050 | 231,223 | Projection |
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