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Yongshan — UN urban centre

80,697

Yongshan: 80,697 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #7,725 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7662; 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: 28.236, 103.6339. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197559,894Estimate
198063,797Estimate
198570,407Estimate
199076,358Estimate
199579,094Estimate
200077,704Estimate
200580,622Estimate
201086,545Estimate
201588,920Estimate
202082,335Estimate
202580,697Estimate
203078,608Projection
203576,605Projection
204074,275Projection
204572,102Projection
205069,425Projection

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