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Jinhae-gu — UN urban centre

99,309

Jinhae-gu: 99,309 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #6,216 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3479; 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: 35.1495, 128.6863. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975190,410Estimate
1980171,451Estimate
1985159,732Estimate
1990144,434Estimate
1995128,625Estimate
2000115,973Estimate
2005109,565Estimate
2010102,092Estimate
2015105,200Estimate
2020101,255Estimate
202599,309Estimate
203096,810Projection
203594,088Projection
204090,498Projection
204585,465Projection
205081,082Projection

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