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Huayuan — UN urban centre

133,559

Huayuan: 133,559 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,564 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 11498; 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: 28.286, 117.2019. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197575,363Estimate
198081,133Estimate
198587,473Estimate
199096,248Estimate
199599,823Estimate
2000117,094Estimate
2005122,827Estimate
2010130,893Estimate
2015134,759Estimate
2020134,150Estimate
2025133,559Estimate
2030132,220Projection
2035130,749Projection
2040128,718Projection
2045126,590Projection
2050123,578Projection

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