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Yongchun — UN urban centre

141,316

Yongchun: 141,316 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,313 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 11944; 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: 25.3255, 118.2827. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197592,609Estimate
198099,043Estimate
1985108,218Estimate
1990120,912Estimate
1995125,043Estimate
2000112,056Estimate
2005131,836Estimate
2010140,259Estimate
2015143,273Estimate
2020141,949Estimate
2025141,316Estimate
2030138,395Projection
2035136,619Projection
2040134,257Projection
2045131,502Projection
2050123,056Projection

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