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胶南 — UN urban centre

325,383

胶南: 325,383 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,765 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10832; 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: 35.8793, 119.9954. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975107,134Estimate
1980117,270Estimate
1985123,555Estimate
1990212,361Estimate
1995238,112Estimate
2000238,459Estimate
2005302,147Estimate
2010327,719Estimate
2015342,719Estimate
2020326,541Estimate
2025325,383Estimate
2030322,420Projection
2035318,087Projection
2040312,392Projection
2045306,255Projection
2050297,980Projection

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