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Mouping — UN urban centre

188,368

Mouping: 188,368 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,206 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10868; 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: 37.3901, 121.5938. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975151,813Estimate
1980159,636Estimate
1985177,903Estimate
1990188,157Estimate
1995188,585Estimate
2000181,449Estimate
2005183,542Estimate
2010195,083Estimate
2015194,364Estimate
2020188,996Estimate
2025188,368Estimate
2030186,685Projection
2035184,300Projection
2040181,126Projection
2045177,537Projection
2050172,709Projection

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