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Erdaojiang — UN urban centre

79,107

Erdaojiang: 79,107 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #7,879 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10748; 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: 41.7884, 126.0413. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197558,851Estimate
198059,255Estimate
198558,264Estimate
199094,418Estimate
199591,295Estimate
200085,215Estimate
200585,381Estimate
201085,907Estimate
201583,758Estimate
202080,717Estimate
202579,107Estimate
203077,054Projection
203575,131Projection
204072,888Projection
204570,634Projection
205067,887Projection

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