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Baiyashi — UN urban centre

91,757

Baiyashi: 91,757 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #6,754 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10476; 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: 26.4, 111.2925. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975103,045Estimate
1980106,026Estimate
1985109,782Estimate
1990116,440Estimate
1995114,758Estimate
2000105,567Estimate
2005100,611Estimate
201098,350Estimate
201596,644Estimate
202092,932Estimate
202591,757Estimate
203090,068Projection
203588,544Projection
204086,642Projection
204585,224Projection
205083,211Projection

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