Nanjing — UN urban centre
Nanjing: 6,800,676 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #57 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 11254; 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: 32.0355, 118.7777. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1,609,060 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,727,886 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 2,055,981 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 2,767,612 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 3,298,685 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 3,897,972 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 4,520,418 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 5,224,357 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 5,942,176 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 6,794,097 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 6,800,676 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 6,767,236 | Projection |
| 2035 | 6,696,425 | Projection |
| 2040 | 6,599,198 | Projection |
| 2045 | 6,484,205 | Projection |
| 2050 | 6,316,820 | Projection |
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