Cixi — UN urban centre
Cixi: 2,177,489 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #234 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 11886; 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: 30.1698, 121.1384. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 52,888 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 112,004 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 308,688 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 622,239 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,066,926 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,284,772 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,524,544 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,749,110 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,990,377 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 2,177,489 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 2,311,157 | Projection |
| 2035 | 2,425,430 | Projection |
| 2040 | 2,535,340 | Projection |
| 2045 | 2,589,482 | Projection |
| 2050 | 2,652,956 | Projection |
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