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Jiaozuo — UN urban centre

704,917

Jiaozuo: 704,917 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #759 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9396; 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: 35.243, 113.2392. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975320,773Estimate
1980352,047Estimate
1985390,432Estimate
1990444,806Estimate
1995544,775Estimate
2000603,096Estimate
2005655,957Estimate
2010680,952Estimate
2015697,105Estimate
2020709,128Estimate
2025704,917Estimate
2030694,420Projection
2035684,221Projection
2040671,090Projection
2045658,770Projection
2050640,384Projection

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