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Suining — UN urban centre

234,397

Suining: 234,397 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,501 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10768; 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: 33.9009, 117.9539. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975238,562Estimate
1980244,454Estimate
1985247,083Estimate
1990254,419Estimate
1995258,775Estimate
2000252,817Estimate
2005251,593Estimate
2010254,154Estimate
2015248,998Estimate
2020239,242Estimate
2025234,397Estimate
2030226,773Projection
2035221,063Projection
2040214,406Projection
2045207,970Projection
2050198,017Projection

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