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Mudanjiang — UN urban centre

758,800

Mudanjiang: 758,800 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #702 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10704; 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: 44.5784, 129.5948. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975580,175Estimate
1980615,478Estimate
1985693,182Estimate
1990741,468Estimate
1995752,487Estimate
2000743,526Estimate
2005753,942Estimate
2010771,727Estimate
2015781,375Estimate
2020773,871Estimate
2025758,800Estimate
2030739,479Projection
2035724,857Projection
2040707,130Projection
2045687,419Projection
2050663,006Projection

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