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Xiyang — UN urban centre

87,834

Xiyang: 87,834 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #7,078 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9030; 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: 37.6052, 113.6972. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197561,371Estimate
198074,718Estimate
198581,047Estimate
199086,474Estimate
199588,756Estimate
200086,095Estimate
200588,660Estimate
201092,069Estimate
201591,627Estimate
202088,302Estimate
202587,834Estimate
203086,875Projection
203585,668Projection
204084,095Projection
204582,203Projection
205079,738Projection

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