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Pingchang County — UN urban centre

148,224

Pingchang County: 148,224 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,094 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 8569; 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: 31.5681, 107.095. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975180,301Estimate
1980185,927Estimate
1985190,972Estimate
1990196,852Estimate
1995191,211Estimate
2000175,821Estimate
2005164,154Estimate
2010174,037Estimate
2015165,142Estimate
2020150,083Estimate
2025148,224Estimate
2030145,534Projection
2035143,326Projection
2040140,503Projection
2045138,159Projection
2050134,851Projection

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