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Chungju-si — UN urban centre

103,243

Chungju-si: 103,243 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #5,996 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2136; 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: 36.975, 127.9306. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975212,039Estimate
1980181,385Estimate
1985157,817Estimate
1990129,757Estimate
1995128,309Estimate
2000128,211Estimate
2005118,992Estimate
2010110,967Estimate
2015113,207Estimate
2020102,489Estimate
2025103,243Estimate
2030105,825Projection
2035105,266Projection
2040103,735Projection
2045101,165Projection
205095,441Projection

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