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Wansheng — UN urban centre

99,425

Wansheng: 99,425 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #6,209 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9040; 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: 28.9635, 106.9148. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975141,526Estimate
1980143,027Estimate
1985146,047Estimate
1990147,543Estimate
1995140,222Estimate
2000125,666Estimate
2005120,141Estimate
2010118,317Estimate
2015112,632Estimate
2020102,160Estimate
202599,425Estimate
203096,133Projection
203591,354Projection
204087,688Projection
204584,157Projection
205080,039Projection

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