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Guanxian — UN urban centre

101,902

Guanxian: 101,902 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #6,065 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9674; 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: 36.4828, 115.4485. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197573,405Estimate
198075,619Estimate
198575,898Estimate
199076,782Estimate
199574,213Estimate
200069,979Estimate
200563,994Estimate
2010103,077Estimate
2015108,319Estimate
2020102,530Estimate
2025101,902Estimate
2030100,704Projection
203599,126Projection
204097,123Projection
204583,954Projection
205076,089Projection

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