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Dunhua — UN urban centre

208,755

Dunhua: 208,755 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,856 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10792; 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: 43.3655, 128.2305. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975206,253Estimate
1980215,106Estimate
1985224,663Estimate
1990235,920Estimate
1995231,287Estimate
2000216,159Estimate
2005218,580Estimate
2010222,226Estimate
2015222,745Estimate
2020214,534Estimate
2025208,755Estimate
2030201,864Projection
2035197,611Projection
2040192,510Projection
2045187,567Projection
2050181,313Projection

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