Jia — UN urban centre
Jia: 95,251 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #6,485 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9672; 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: 33.9723, 113.2233. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 70,363 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 73,041 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 77,083 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 80,442 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 85,911 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 81,139 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 90,422 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 96,814 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 98,744 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 96,479 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 95,251 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 93,489 | Projection |
| 2035 | 91,655 | Projection |
| 2040 | 87,935 | Projection |
| 2045 | 85,916 | Projection |
| 2050 | 83,298 | Projection |
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