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Xuyi County — UN urban centre

124,235

Xuyi County: 124,235 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,924 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 11074; 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: 33.0021, 118.5083. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975135,368Estimate
1980137,916Estimate
1985139,854Estimate
1990142,699Estimate
1995144,530Estimate
2000142,157Estimate
2005131,777Estimate
2010136,521Estimate
2015131,714Estimate
2020124,244Estimate
2025124,235Estimate
2030123,564Projection
2035122,233Projection
2040120,378Projection
2045118,086Projection
2050114,969Projection

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