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Haiyou — UN urban centre

70,739

Haiyou: 70,739 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #8,773 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 12034; 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: 29.1149, 121.3657. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197550,301Estimate
198051,180Estimate
198551,333Estimate
199062,594Estimate
199569,174Estimate
200069,424Estimate
200589,443Estimate
201067,948Estimate
201569,280Estimate
202069,899Estimate
202570,739Estimate
203071,182Projection
203571,152Projection
204070,817Projection
204570,155Projection
205069,003Projection

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