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Binzhou — UN urban centre

52,404

Binzhou: 52,404 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #11,730 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7442; 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: 35.0361, 108.0807. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197566,144Estimate
198069,234Estimate
198571,800Estimate
199074,849Estimate
199573,523Estimate
200067,722Estimate
200560,203Estimate
201058,158Estimate
201554,917Estimate
202052,928Estimate
202552,404Estimate
203051,587Projection
203550,763Projection

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