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Yanjin — UN urban centre

69,683

Yanjin: 69,683 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #8,911 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9668; 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: 35.15, 114.1931. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
198556,739Estimate
199070,703Estimate
199571,045Estimate
200063,196Estimate
200566,571Estimate
201069,538Estimate
201573,223Estimate
202070,133Estimate
202569,683Estimate
203067,358Projection
203566,301Projection
204064,960Projection
204563,480Projection
205061,557Projection

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