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Ruzhou — UN urban centre

195,236

Ruzhou: 195,236 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,077 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9534; 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: 34.1684, 112.8406. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975178,412Estimate
1980183,470Estimate
1985190,841Estimate
1990200,284Estimate
1995201,914Estimate
2000188,636Estimate
2005194,616Estimate
2010202,230Estimate
2015203,148Estimate
2020197,615Estimate
2025195,236Estimate
2030191,763Projection
2035188,189Projection
2040183,808Projection
2045180,007Projection
2050174,950Projection

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