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Jiangyan — UN urban centre

233,463

Jiangyan: 233,463 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,518 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 11462; 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: 32.5069, 120.1492. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975196,276Estimate
1980203,224Estimate
1985208,850Estimate
1990220,421Estimate
1995231,937Estimate
2000215,559Estimate
2005245,801Estimate
2010247,252Estimate
2015241,768Estimate
2020233,560Estimate
2025233,463Estimate
2030232,058Projection
2035229,471Projection
2040225,900Projection
2045221,768Projection
2050216,088Projection

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