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Ô-á-liâu / Kezihliao — UN urban centre

118,947

Ô-á-liâu / Kezihliao: 118,947 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #5,166 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 12134; territory: Taiwan (TWN). 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: 22.7846, 120.282. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975163,281Estimate
1980161,291Estimate
1985133,208Estimate
1990119,790Estimate
1995125,759Estimate
2000132,669Estimate
2005137,132Estimate
2010135,702Estimate
2015131,215Estimate
2020124,071Estimate
2025118,947Estimate
2030113,966Projection
2035107,821Projection
204092,861Projection
204556,378Projection

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