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Caohe — UN urban centre

107,296

Caohe: 107,296 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #5,759 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10872; 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: 30.248, 115.4239. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975181,872Estimate
1980181,156Estimate
1985181,579Estimate
1990176,996Estimate
1995173,513Estimate
2000155,509Estimate
2005143,229Estimate
2010133,118Estimate
2015122,056Estimate
2020110,334Estimate
2025107,296Estimate
2030103,656Projection
2035100,686Projection
204097,284Projection
204594,074Projection
205091,709Projection

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