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강서구역 — UN urban centre

147,052

강서구역: 147,052 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,139 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3637; territory: North Korea (PRK). 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: 38.9112, 125.5198. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975143,342Estimate
1980141,940Estimate
1985143,388Estimate
1990145,243Estimate
1995150,804Estimate
2000154,662Estimate
2005153,548Estimate
2010151,552Estimate
2015149,531Estimate
2020145,261Estimate
2025147,052Estimate
2030147,621Projection
2035147,635Projection
2040146,612Projection
2045145,446Projection
2050143,775Projection

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