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Heshun — UN urban centre

63,860

Heshun: 63,860 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #9,704 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9056; 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: 37.3274, 113.5662. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197551,517Estimate
198055,071Estimate
198558,544Estimate
199062,413Estimate
199563,153Estimate
200060,236Estimate
200560,089Estimate
201061,819Estimate
201564,972Estimate
202064,243Estimate
202563,860Estimate
203063,119Projection
203562,165Projection
204060,945Projection
204559,544Projection
205057,728Projection

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