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Yuhu — UN urban centre

462,605

Yuhu: 462,605 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,203 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10624; 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: 27.8919, 112.9028. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975262,413Estimate
1980316,469Estimate
1985333,484Estimate
1990349,283Estimate
1995400,977Estimate
2000447,242Estimate
2005453,158Estimate
2010467,102Estimate
2015464,847Estimate
2020457,214Estimate
2025462,605Estimate
2030465,406Projection
2035465,425Projection
2040463,451Projection
2045459,913Projection
2050453,164Projection

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