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Hong'an — UN urban centre

132,208

Hong'an: 132,208 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,621 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10482; 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: 31.2831, 114.6059. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975246,464Estimate
1980239,224Estimate
1985234,364Estimate
1990235,150Estimate
1995220,140Estimate
2000195,159Estimate
2005181,613Estimate
2010169,073Estimate
2015153,902Estimate
2020137,466Estimate
2025132,208Estimate
2030127,696Projection
2035124,232Projection
2040120,235Projection
2045114,934Projection
2050108,478Projection

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