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Jianyang — UN urban centre

333,938

Jianyang: 333,938 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,715 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7339; 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: 30.3976, 104.5432. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
198557,698Estimate
199089,672Estimate
1995189,701Estimate
2000319,033Estimate
2005294,340Estimate
2010241,167Estimate
2015277,415Estimate
2020339,954Estimate
2025333,938Estimate
2030326,052Projection
2035318,593Projection
2040309,768Projection
2045301,435Projection
2050290,997Projection

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