Chŏngjin — UN urban centre
Chŏngjin: 690,409 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #779 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4711; 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: 41.7722, 129.7636. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 428,461 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 551,676 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 556,620 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 587,262 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 626,587 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 637,499 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 655,335 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 671,858 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 680,675 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 682,017 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 690,409 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 693,594 | Projection |
| 2035 | 695,287 | Projection |
| 2040 | 692,092 | Projection |
| 2045 | 690,005 | Projection |
| 2050 | 684,118 | Projection |
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