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Jiujiang — UN urban centre

597,681

Jiujiang: 597,681 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #913 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 11076; 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: 29.7109, 115.9895. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975135,461Estimate
1980179,536Estimate
1985262,311Estimate
1990332,200Estimate
1995418,877Estimate
2000531,606Estimate
2005572,785Estimate
2010600,482Estimate
2015597,245Estimate
2020599,811Estimate
2025597,681Estimate
2030582,001Projection
2035576,007Projection
2040564,645Projection
2045555,866Projection
2050543,204Projection

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