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Pakokku — UN urban centre

115,389

Pakokku: 115,389 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #5,322 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2285; territory: Myanmar (MMR). 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: 21.3356, 95.0795. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975100,397Estimate
1980104,507Estimate
1985108,179Estimate
1990110,537Estimate
1995116,399Estimate
2000122,288Estimate
2005129,201Estimate
2010129,103Estimate
2015126,444Estimate
2020115,120Estimate
2025115,389Estimate
2030114,955Projection
2035114,659Projection
2040113,628Projection
2045112,808Projection
2050111,366Projection

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