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Guigang — UN urban centre

298,077

Guigang: 298,077 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,935 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10508; 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: 23.1016, 109.5993. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1995114,788Estimate
2000276,907Estimate
2005314,491Estimate
2010310,518Estimate
2015309,286Estimate
2020296,033Estimate
2025298,077Estimate
2030295,197Projection
2035293,083Projection
2040289,713Projection
2045285,612Projection
2050279,517Projection

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