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Xunyang — UN urban centre

62,538

Xunyang: 62,538 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #9,919 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 8982; 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: 32.8347, 109.3557. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197558,627Estimate
198061,875Estimate
198565,086Estimate
199068,275Estimate
199573,977Estimate
200067,594Estimate
200567,268Estimate
201067,705Estimate
201566,957Estimate
202063,098Estimate
202562,538Estimate
203061,627Projection
203560,735Projection
204059,582Projection
204558,310Projection
205056,631Projection

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