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Wuyishan — UN urban centre

87,055

Wuyishan: 87,055 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #7,144 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 11682; 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: 27.7525, 118.0224. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197596,944Estimate
1980102,745Estimate
1985107,667Estimate
1990112,489Estimate
1995109,498Estimate
2000100,381Estimate
200595,689Estimate
201092,092Estimate
201589,715Estimate
202087,489Estimate
202587,055Estimate
203086,134Projection
203584,975Projection
204083,452Projection
204581,674Projection
205079,326Projection

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