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Zhuanglang — UN urban centre

50,048

Zhuanglang: 50,048 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #12,128 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5969; 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: 35.2045, 106.0405. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
198052,849Estimate
198555,738Estimate
199059,436Estimate
199558,189Estimate
200054,449Estimate
200554,301Estimate
201054,652Estimate
201552,084Estimate
202050,615Estimate
202550,048Estimate

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