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Bozhou — UN urban centre

120,829

Bozhou: 120,829 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #5,076 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9236; 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: 27.5446, 106.8332. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975136,143Estimate
1980137,855Estimate
1985140,619Estimate
1990140,180Estimate
1995137,449Estimate
2000120,745Estimate
2005114,451Estimate
2010153,353Estimate
2015136,959Estimate
2020124,935Estimate
2025120,829Estimate
2030118,195Projection
2035114,431Projection
2040111,699Projection
2045109,464Projection
2050106,466Projection

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