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Suiling — UN urban centre

110,012

Suiling: 110,012 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #5,611 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9402; 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: 47.2458, 127.0971. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197594,292Estimate
198099,149Estimate
1985103,769Estimate
1990109,200Estimate
1995111,154Estimate
2000101,431Estimate
2005106,801Estimate
2010113,958Estimate
2015115,872Estimate
2020111,610Estimate
2025110,012Estimate
2030107,797Projection
2035106,305Projection
2040104,357Projection
2045102,694Projection
2050100,313Projection

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