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해안2동 — UN urban centre

127,810

해안2동: 127,810 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,786 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5642; 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: 40.421, 128.909. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975109,847Estimate
1980110,127Estimate
1985112,802Estimate
1990115,221Estimate
1995120,211Estimate
2000123,996Estimate
2005125,367Estimate
2010125,591Estimate
2015125,758Estimate
2020125,001Estimate
2025127,810Estimate
2030128,417Projection
2035128,750Projection
2040128,177Projection
2045127,742Projection
2050130,463Projection

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