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Pianguan — UN urban centre

58,795

Pianguan: 58,795 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #10,509 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7118; 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: 39.438, 111.4987. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
198551,628Estimate
199055,719Estimate
199555,494Estimate
200053,312Estimate
200554,620Estimate
201056,406Estimate
201558,800Estimate
202058,691Estimate
202558,795Estimate
203058,570Projection
203558,212Projection
204057,605Projection
204556,869Projection
205055,736Projection

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