Handan — UN urban centre
Handan: 1,777,172 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #279 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9410; 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: 36.597, 114.4857. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 230,204 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 310,112 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 426,769 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 568,080 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 746,704 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 998,495 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,090,051 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,090,752 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,386,932 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,785,969 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,777,172 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,758,421 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,735,470 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,705,083 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,675,613 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,634,442 | Projection |
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