Suihua — UN urban centre
Suihua: 288,149 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,024 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9568; 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: 46.6386, 126.9861. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 253,390 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 259,642 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 263,146 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 268,855 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 264,730 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 263,945 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 263,985 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 276,463 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 282,185 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 288,737 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 288,149 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 285,946 | Projection |
| 2035 | 283,562 | Projection |
| 2040 | 279,963 | Projection |
| 2045 | 277,304 | Projection |
| 2050 | 272,707 | Projection |
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