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Xixi — UN urban centre

186,436

Xixi: 186,436 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,237 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 11862; 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: 22.9906, 116.1773. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197569,279Estimate
198074,280Estimate
198578,897Estimate
1990113,362Estimate
1995134,110Estimate
2000119,328Estimate
2005145,882Estimate
2010166,632Estimate
2015174,878Estimate
2020179,411Estimate
2025186,436Estimate
2030192,417Projection
2035198,649Projection
2040202,571Projection
2045203,655Projection
2050203,317Projection

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