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Wangjiang — UN urban centre

76,783

Wangjiang: 76,783 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #8,124 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 11158; 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: 30.1276, 116.6879. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197594,412Estimate
198093,357Estimate
198590,418Estimate
199089,774Estimate
199590,912Estimate
200082,924Estimate
200578,996Estimate
201083,585Estimate
201581,818Estimate
202077,109Estimate
202576,783Estimate
203076,026Projection
203575,159Projection
204073,969Projection
204572,691Projection
205070,905Projection

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