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Jiangdu District — UN urban centre

230,968

Jiangdu District: 230,968 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,546 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 11366; 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: 32.4305, 119.568. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197575,829Estimate
198076,559Estimate
198587,420Estimate
1990114,112Estimate
1995171,699Estimate
2000257,955Estimate
2005278,215Estimate
2010264,836Estimate
2015247,741Estimate
2020231,092Estimate
2025230,968Estimate
2030229,550Projection
2035226,923Projection
2040223,323Projection
2045219,029Projection
2050206,406Projection

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