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Pingtan — UN urban centre

110,827

Pingtan: 110,827 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #5,571 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 12119; 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: 25.5022, 119.7847. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197583,102Estimate
198087,547Estimate
198594,479Estimate
1990100,845Estimate
1995101,493Estimate
200098,862Estimate
2005102,814Estimate
2010108,277Estimate
2015116,667Estimate
2020111,882Estimate
2025110,827Estimate
2030109,658Projection
2035108,269Projection
2040106,416Projection
2045104,347Projection
2050101,549Projection

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