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Nanxun — UN urban centre

204,276

Nanxun: 204,276 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,921 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 11696; 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: 30.8747, 120.4122. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197562,703Estimate
198069,322Estimate
1985106,872Estimate
1990117,977Estimate
1995139,616Estimate
2000143,806Estimate
2005153,522Estimate
2010173,643Estimate
2015183,815Estimate
2020185,607Estimate
2025204,276Estimate
2030215,780Projection
2035241,421Projection
2040303,810Projection
2045311,249Projection
2050316,515Projection

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