🌍 World Alive

Conghua — UN urban centre

233,861

Conghua: 233,861 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,511 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 11380; 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: 23.5471, 113.583. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197586,070Estimate
198093,017Estimate
1985106,501Estimate
1990118,232Estimate
1995135,221Estimate
2000141,200Estimate
2005157,461Estimate
2010179,999Estimate
2015213,937Estimate
2020224,172Estimate
2025233,861Estimate
2030240,755Projection
2035247,210Projection
2040255,013Projection
2045256,081Projection
2050255,361Projection

Largest UN urban centres · Fastest-growing urban centres

What changed during your lifetime?

Turn these figures into a private, five-scene personal world story.

Use this source record with the right definition

This page is a structured reference entry. Its sources, geographic definition and reference dates determine what the figures mean; it is not independent reporting about the causes of change. Read the accompanying explanation before comparing different places or vintages.

Why an urban centre is not a municipality →

Interpretation reviewed 12 October 2026. Underlying reference years are stated on the page; this is not a fresh census or dataset refresh.