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Ningjiang — UN urban centre

245,570

Ningjiang: 245,570 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,375 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9546; 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: 45.1735, 124.8297. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975222,526Estimate
1980232,984Estimate
1985243,847Estimate
1990257,592Estimate
1995259,143Estimate
2000242,224Estimate
2005246,229Estimate
2010256,129Estimate
2015255,534Estimate
2020246,113Estimate
2025245,570Estimate
2030243,652Projection
2035241,560Projection
2040238,433Projection
2045235,954Projection
2050231,828Projection

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