🌍 World Alive

Haining — UN urban centre

234,399

Haining: 234,399 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,500 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 11788; 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: 30.527, 120.6862. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975143,894Estimate
1980147,269Estimate
1985162,214Estimate
1990169,696Estimate
1995176,036Estimate
2000181,913Estimate
2005203,792Estimate
2010227,248Estimate
2015221,534Estimate
2020217,871Estimate
2025234,399Estimate
2030247,890Projection
2035268,109Projection
2040283,296Projection
2045292,213Projection
2050298,116Projection

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.