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Pyeongtaek — UN urban centre

145,127

Pyeongtaek: 145,127 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,207 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1538; territory: South Korea (KOR). 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: 37.0006, 127.1055. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197577,930Estimate
198072,607Estimate
198568,740Estimate
199062,887Estimate
199578,269Estimate
200091,989Estimate
2005102,053Estimate
2010105,491Estimate
2015130,606Estimate
2020146,045Estimate
2025145,127Estimate
2030143,402Projection
2035141,353Projection
2040138,000Projection
2045132,880Projection
2050125,386Projection

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