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Yousuo — UN urban centre

62,591

Yousuo: 62,591 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #9,907 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 8573; 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: 24.6507, 102.9027. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
200059,421Estimate
200561,157Estimate
201065,239Estimate
201566,081Estimate
202060,613Estimate
202562,591Estimate
203060,295Projection
203559,995Projection
204059,437Projection
204558,843Projection
205056,359Projection

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