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Yangcheng — UN urban centre

112,448

Yangcheng: 112,448 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #5,484 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9162; 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: 35.4829, 112.416. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197588,532Estimate
198096,225Estimate
1985102,897Estimate
1990111,295Estimate
1995112,872Estimate
2000107,733Estimate
2005109,411Estimate
2010113,807Estimate
2015115,412Estimate
2020113,094Estimate
2025112,448Estimate
2030111,171Projection
2035109,553Projection
2040107,466Projection
2045105,101Projection
2050102,002Projection

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