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Jizhou — UN urban centre

190,744

Jizhou: 190,744 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,148 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9294; 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: 40.0437, 117.4003. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197551,244Estimate
198060,193Estimate
198576,134Estimate
199090,721Estimate
1995100,289Estimate
2000107,247Estimate
2005122,001Estimate
2010144,365Estimate
2015167,198Estimate
2020183,491Estimate
2025190,744Estimate
2030195,961Projection
2035201,340Projection
2040204,995Projection
2045205,303Projection
2050204,177Projection

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