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Taojiang County — UN urban centre

139,867

Taojiang County: 139,867 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,363 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10338; 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: 28.5255, 112.1326. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975142,215Estimate
1980149,574Estimate
1985156,243Estimate
1990163,679Estimate
1995163,990Estimate
2000155,026Estimate
2005148,810Estimate
2010151,753Estimate
2015148,799Estimate
2020142,304Estimate
2025139,867Estimate
2030136,647Projection
2035133,961Projection
2040130,702Projection
2045128,093Projection
2050124,589Projection

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