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Haizhou District — UN urban centre

850,645

Haizhou District: 850,645 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #614 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 10910; 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: 34.615, 119.1707. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975231,558Estimate
1980262,078Estimate
1985297,763Estimate
1990345,280Estimate
1995444,884Estimate
2000571,294Estimate
2005582,619Estimate
2010555,011Estimate
2015687,269Estimate
2020849,720Estimate
2025850,645Estimate
2030846,805Projection
2035839,672Projection
2040828,941Projection
2045816,202Projection
2050797,762Projection

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