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Guangning — UN urban centre

120,675

Guangning: 120,675 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #5,088 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 11138; 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: 23.6337, 112.4324. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197563,263Estimate
198069,200Estimate
198577,044Estimate
199084,074Estimate
199590,715Estimate
200091,333Estimate
200597,766Estimate
2010105,900Estimate
2015113,036Estimate
2020116,900Estimate
2025120,675Estimate
2030125,306Projection
2035127,405Projection
2040130,507Projection
2045130,912Projection
2050130,402Projection

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