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Jangyon — UN urban centre

66,969

Jangyon: 66,969 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #9,261 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4222; 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: 38.2499, 125.0914. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197554,377Estimate
198054,270Estimate
198555,064Estimate
199055,552Estimate
199559,803Estimate
200063,824Estimate
200565,779Estimate
201066,966Estimate
201567,406Estimate
202065,505Estimate
202566,969Estimate
203067,876Projection
203568,564Projection
204068,770Projection
204568,821Projection
205068,633Projection

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