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Xiushan — UN urban centre

93,721

Xiushan: 93,721 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #6,604 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9634; 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: 28.4477, 108.9911. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975128,840Estimate
1980129,644Estimate
1985128,139Estimate
1990128,741Estimate
1995119,576Estimate
2000106,477Estimate
200597,078Estimate
2010111,149Estimate
2015103,198Estimate
202095,502Estimate
202593,721Estimate
203091,415Projection
203589,448Projection
204087,097Projection
204585,243Projection
205073,918Projection

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