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Zhaoping — UN urban centre

63,493

Zhaoping: 63,493 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #9,752 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10670; 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: 24.1776, 110.8087. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197560,357Estimate
198062,506Estimate
198564,418Estimate
199067,369Estimate
199566,896Estimate
200063,436Estimate
200562,548Estimate
201067,464Estimate
201566,842Estimate
202064,062Estimate
202563,493Estimate
203062,568Projection
203561,730Projection
204060,628Projection
204559,644Projection
205058,243Projection

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