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Deqing — UN urban centre

166,569

Deqing: 166,569 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,635 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 11672; 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: 30.5411, 119.9621. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197579,613Estimate
198083,788Estimate
198593,222Estimate
1990100,196Estimate
1995116,190Estimate
2000129,702Estimate
2005137,853Estimate
2010144,183Estimate
2015151,100Estimate
2020156,302Estimate
2025166,569Estimate
2030175,971Projection
2035188,548Projection
2040197,355Projection
2045202,832Projection
2050207,348Projection

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