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Beilun District — UN urban centre

467,912

Beilun District: 467,912 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,189 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 12016; 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: 29.911, 121.8317. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197571,234Estimate
198082,597Estimate
198594,136Estimate
1990111,269Estimate
1995239,178Estimate
2000243,357Estimate
2005293,100Estimate
2010348,653Estimate
2015407,873Estimate
2020425,900Estimate
2025467,912Estimate
2030498,409Projection
2035519,850Projection
2040548,415Projection
2045562,756Projection
2050575,003Projection

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