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Zhoushan — UN urban centre

56,884

Zhoushan: 56,884 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #10,826 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 12064; 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: 29.9939, 122.1989. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
201550,945Estimate
202053,852Estimate
202556,884Estimate
203068,018Projection
203571,084Projection
204077,243Projection
204579,299Projection
205080,800Projection

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