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Weihe — UN urban centre

58,479

Weihe: 58,479 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #10,556 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10342; 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: 44.9441, 128.379. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197554,813Estimate
198056,654Estimate
198558,044Estimate
199059,878Estimate
199559,028Estimate
200055,819Estimate
200556,804Estimate
201058,566Estimate
201561,758Estimate
202058,600Estimate
202558,479Estimate
203058,031Projection
203557,505Projection
204056,733Projection
204555,908Projection
205053,199Projection

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