🌍 World Alive

Wuhua — UN urban centre

221,702

Wuhua: 221,702 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,665 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 11692; 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: 23.9245, 115.7685. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975102,793Estimate
1980121,445Estimate
1985136,669Estimate
1990160,886Estimate
1995173,868Estimate
2000174,923Estimate
2005183,530Estimate
2010196,129Estimate
2015206,714Estimate
2020212,429Estimate
2025221,702Estimate
2030229,438Projection
2035233,981Projection
2040237,522Projection
2045238,343Projection
2050237,500Projection

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.