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Cangxi County — UN urban centre

91,414

Cangxi County: 91,414 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #6,777 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7652; 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: 31.7387, 105.936. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975171,368Estimate
1980172,490Estimate
1985174,781Estimate
1990179,305Estimate
1995169,530Estimate
2000148,265Estimate
2005133,836Estimate
2010119,427Estimate
2015107,641Estimate
202093,536Estimate
202591,414Estimate
203087,138Projection
203584,618Projection
204079,437Projection
204576,747Projection
205073,520Projection

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