Yongfeng — UN urban centre
Yongfeng: 100,648 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #6,139 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 11304; 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: 27.3252, 115.429. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 70,758 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 76,236 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 80,855 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 90,916 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 93,046 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 90,230 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 93,981 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 99,100 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 102,170 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 101,105 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 100,648 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 99,627 | Projection |
| 2035 | 98,513 | Projection |
| 2040 | 96,977 | Projection |
| 2045 | 95,379 | Projection |
| 2050 | 93,115 | Projection |
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