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Qianxi — UN urban centre

87,569

Qianxi: 87,569 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #7,101 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9478; 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: 40.1386, 118.297. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197564,416Estimate
198069,749Estimate
198573,729Estimate
199076,802Estimate
199575,501Estimate
200071,914Estimate
200571,839Estimate
201072,689Estimate
201577,752Estimate
202075,783Estimate
202587,569Estimate
203089,103Projection
203590,132Projection
204095,435Projection
204595,531Projection
205094,959Projection

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