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Jishou — UN urban centre

199,728

Jishou: 199,728 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,997 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 9806; 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: 28.3073, 109.7307. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197557,270Estimate
198072,412Estimate
198590,636Estimate
1990117,000Estimate
1995163,017Estimate
2000203,617Estimate
2005207,773Estimate
2010205,703Estimate
2015201,513Estimate
2020203,343Estimate
2025199,728Estimate
2030194,994Projection
2035190,969Projection
2040186,126Projection
2045182,338Projection
2050173,528Projection

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