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Fengyang — UN urban centre

56,674

Fengyang: 56,674 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #10,865 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10890; 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: 32.8692, 117.5545. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197596,212Estimate
198093,561Estimate
198588,074Estimate
199085,425Estimate
199581,044Estimate
200071,396Estimate
200562,940Estimate
201057,825Estimate
201561,957Estimate
202056,731Estimate
202556,674Estimate
203056,299Projection
203555,615Projection
204054,692Projection
204553,556Projection
205052,046Projection

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