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Xiangshui — UN urban centre

111,979

Xiangshui: 111,979 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #5,514 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 11088; 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: 34.2005, 119.5779. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975125,401Estimate
1980126,958Estimate
1985150,997Estimate
1990154,939Estimate
1995152,870Estimate
2000135,196Estimate
2005125,130Estimate
2010123,347Estimate
2015117,952Estimate
2020112,012Estimate
2025111,979Estimate
2030111,319Projection
2035110,117Projection
2040108,442Projection
2045106,458Projection
2050103,729Projection

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