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Jalaid — UN urban centre

71,898

Jalaid: 71,898 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #8,651 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 8649; 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: 46.7231, 122.8989. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197592,881Estimate
198095,397Estimate
198596,786Estimate
199097,980Estimate
199595,347Estimate
200085,151Estimate
200583,182Estimate
201080,572Estimate
201578,432Estimate
202073,334Estimate
202571,898Estimate
203070,060Projection
203568,555Projection
204066,756Projection
204565,107Projection
205063,003Projection

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