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Longquanyi — UN urban centre

426,144

Longquanyi: 426,144 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,314 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7062; 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: 30.5624, 104.2341. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975170,987Estimate
1980254,618Estimate
1985252,444Estimate
1990260,498Estimate
1995280,132Estimate
2000275,238Estimate
2005390,002Estimate
2010443,313Estimate
2015454,299Estimate
2020434,635Estimate
2025426,144Estimate
2030413,767Projection
2035403,238Projection
2040390,980Projection
2045378,129Projection
2050361,007Projection

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