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Rongxian — UN urban centre

123,797

Rongxian: 123,797 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,946 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7672; 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: 29.4557, 104.4175. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975199,302Estimate
1980203,444Estimate
1985205,223Estimate
1990206,897Estimate
1995192,431Estimate
2000170,959Estimate
2005157,540Estimate
2010150,866Estimate
2015136,633Estimate
2020126,105Estimate
2025123,797Estimate
2030120,796Projection
2035117,916Projection
2040114,531Projection
2045111,451Projection
2050107,593Projection

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