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Zhuozhou — UN urban centre

224,356

Zhuozhou: 224,356 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,633 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9110; 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: 39.4969, 115.9804. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
198055,932Estimate
198567,374Estimate
199091,719Estimate
1995108,651Estimate
2000179,101Estimate
2005197,667Estimate
2010199,468Estimate
2015204,366Estimate
2020212,195Estimate
2025224,356Estimate
2030246,131Projection
2035251,127Projection
2040255,101Projection
2045255,522Projection
2050254,158Projection

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