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Xingren — UN urban centre

73,524

Xingren: 73,524 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #8,468 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9122; 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: 25.436, 105.1939. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197563,217Estimate
198089,533Estimate
198591,686Estimate
199094,830Estimate
199594,228Estimate
200085,654Estimate
200584,608Estimate
201083,556Estimate
201580,668Estimate
202073,883Estimate
202573,524Estimate
203072,753Projection
203572,193Projection
204071,324Projection
204570,653Projection
205069,487Projection

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