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Pingyuan — UN urban centre

87,504

Pingyuan: 87,504 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #7,103 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9736; 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: 37.1593, 116.4367. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197550,026Estimate
198052,615Estimate
198554,501Estimate
199057,138Estimate
199558,631Estimate
200057,200Estimate
200569,466Estimate
201081,219Estimate
201580,840Estimate
202088,256Estimate
202587,504Estimate
203086,263Projection
203584,785Projection
204078,021Projection
204576,105Projection
205073,657Projection

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