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Ningjin — UN urban centre

110,392

Ningjin: 110,392 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #5,593 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9290; 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: 37.6231, 114.9137. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197565,247Estimate
198075,901Estimate
198582,337Estimate
199088,493Estimate
1995107,070Estimate
2000101,307Estimate
2005103,767Estimate
2010107,387Estimate
2015111,929Estimate
2020111,024Estimate
2025110,392Estimate
2030109,141Projection
2035107,569Projection
2040105,536Projection
2045100,852Projection
205098,240Projection

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