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Peng'an — UN urban centre

88,109

Peng'an: 88,109 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #7,045 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 8431; 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: 31.0303, 106.4086. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975115,964Estimate
1980118,757Estimate
1985120,745Estimate
1990122,966Estimate
1995115,933Estimate
2000104,780Estimate
200598,462Estimate
2010104,198Estimate
201597,994Estimate
202089,979Estimate
202588,109Estimate
203085,745Projection
203583,452Projection
204079,328Projection
204576,875Projection
205073,885Projection

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