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Fengdu — UN urban centre

126,226

Fengdu: 126,226 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,845 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9082; 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: 29.8573, 107.7202. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975156,404Estimate
1980172,449Estimate
1985137,781Estimate
1990140,219Estimate
1995155,501Estimate
2000158,930Estimate
2005161,647Estimate
2010160,716Estimate
2015152,392Estimate
2020130,438Estimate
2025126,226Estimate
2030122,216Projection
2035119,372Projection
2040116,016Projection
2045112,919Projection
2050109,032Projection

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