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Nenjiang — UN urban centre

139,989

Nenjiang: 139,989 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,362 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7870; 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: 49.1724, 125.2196. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975133,120Estimate
1980139,769Estimate
1985154,393Estimate
1990162,659Estimate
1995160,484Estimate
2000148,480Estimate
2005145,252Estimate
2010146,798Estimate
2015145,419Estimate
2020142,112Estimate
2025139,989Estimate
2030135,714Projection
2035132,550Projection
2040130,312Projection
2045128,453Projection
2050125,698Projection

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