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Tumen — UN urban centre

62,909

Tumen: 62,909 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #9,847 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 11210; 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: 42.9601, 129.8404. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197568,856Estimate
198073,358Estimate
198574,479Estimate
199076,446Estimate
199574,843Estimate
200067,985Estimate
200568,149Estimate
201068,962Estimate
201568,300Estimate
202064,155Estimate
202562,909Estimate
203061,310Projection
203560,059Projection
204058,550Projection
204557,107Projection
205055,265Projection

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