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Ma'anshan — UN urban centre

929,836

Ma'anshan: 929,836 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #558 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 11282; 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: 31.6905, 118.5002. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975169,659Estimate
1980212,676Estimate
1985271,417Estimate
1990358,799Estimate
1995464,456Estimate
2000616,074Estimate
2005660,342Estimate
2010646,406Estimate
2015771,227Estimate
2020929,057Estimate
2025929,836Estimate
2030925,406Projection
2035916,670Projection
2040904,006Projection
2045887,865Projection
2050867,029Projection

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