Jeonju — UN urban centre
Jeonju: 637,082 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #848 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2517; 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: 35.8259, 127.1279. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 262,685 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 336,379 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 389,388 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 469,437 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 524,187 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 574,641 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 597,457 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 613,719 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 629,366 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 640,631 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 637,082 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 628,498 | Projection |
| 2035 | 620,301 | Projection |
| 2040 | 606,379 | Projection |
| 2045 | 590,252 | Projection |
| 2050 | 570,907 | Projection |
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