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Ji'an — UN urban centre

145,016

Ji'an: 145,016 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,211 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 11230; 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: 27.1054, 114.9921. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197568,794Estimate
198075,602Estimate
198581,205Estimate
199086,789Estimate
1995101,508Estimate
2000120,430Estimate
2005129,619Estimate
2010135,096Estimate
2015139,618Estimate
2020143,591Estimate
2025145,016Estimate
2030144,700Projection
2035144,199Projection
2040143,080Projection
2045141,767Projection
2050139,463Projection

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