Cheongju-si — UN urban centre
Cheongju-si: 690,333 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #780 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2057; 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: 36.6355, 127.4708. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 184,435 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 234,750 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 324,186 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 444,338 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 500,689 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 553,972 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 609,183 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 632,193 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 655,143 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 694,000 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 690,333 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 673,221 | Projection |
| 2035 | 663,405 | Projection |
| 2040 | 648,967 | Projection |
| 2045 | 633,792 | Projection |
| 2050 | 612,122 | Projection |
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