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Tongnan — UN urban centre

130,393

Tongnan: 130,393 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,680 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 8407; 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: 30.1809, 105.8265. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975178,215Estimate
1980180,270Estimate
1985180,710Estimate
1990183,817Estimate
1995175,059Estimate
2000156,014Estimate
2005148,849Estimate
2010142,973Estimate
2015135,808Estimate
2020133,169Estimate
2025130,393Estimate
2030126,888Projection
2035121,986Projection
2040118,080Projection
2045109,459Projection
2050103,690Projection

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