Shancheng — UN urban centre
Shancheng: 200,909 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,974 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9494; 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: 35.8877, 114.1772. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 161,645 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 168,233 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 175,100 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 185,612 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 185,354 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 176,720 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 196,919 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 205,964 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 208,225 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 201,988 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 200,909 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 198,705 | Projection |
| 2035 | 195,963 | Projection |
| 2040 | 192,381 | Projection |
| 2045 | 188,521 | Projection |
| 2050 | 181,860 | Projection |
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