Qingyuan — UN urban centre
Qingyuan: 702,881 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #763 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 11220; 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: 23.7223, 113.0094. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 107,389 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 115,480 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 128,137 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 233,569 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 325,631 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 449,796 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 527,427 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 555,836 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 618,578 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 673,717 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 702,881 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 733,344 | Projection |
| 2035 | 751,905 | Projection |
| 2040 | 763,227 | Projection |
| 2045 | 767,558 | Projection |
| 2050 | 765,053 | Projection |
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