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Songyang County — UN urban centre

56,382

Songyang County: 56,382 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #10,922 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 11854; 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: 28.4511, 119.4838. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
198051,662Estimate
198556,321Estimate
199060,282Estimate
199561,679Estimate
200058,605Estimate
200557,033Estimate
201056,017Estimate
201555,901Estimate
202055,912Estimate
202556,382Estimate
203056,536Projection
203556,450Projection
204056,122Projection
204555,540Projection
205054,569Projection

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