Lingyuan — UN urban centre
Lingyuan: 179,284 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,377 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9458; 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: 41.241, 119.3944. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 96,232 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 114,524 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 136,941 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 164,741 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 192,441 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 225,024 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 217,388 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 205,250 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 193,280 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 181,367 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 179,284 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 176,196 | Projection |
| 2035 | 174,844 | Projection |
| 2040 | 172,743 | Projection |
| 2045 | 169,818 | Projection |
| 2050 | 165,699 | Projection |
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