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Ningyuan — UN urban centre

101,777

Ningyuan: 101,777 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #6,073 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10752; 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: 25.5893, 111.938. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975115,737Estimate
1980118,877Estimate
1985123,125Estimate
1990127,164Estimate
1995126,496Estimate
2000116,618Estimate
2005109,493Estimate
2010110,245Estimate
2015107,936Estimate
2020103,087Estimate
2025101,777Estimate
203099,897Projection
203598,185Projection
204096,052Projection
204594,351Projection
205090,501Projection

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