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Kyaukse — UN urban centre

95,281

Kyaukse: 95,281 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #6,484 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3368; 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: 21.6067, 96.136. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197554,114Estimate
198060,785Estimate
198564,534Estimate
199067,642Estimate
199579,018Estimate
200088,924Estimate
200592,647Estimate
201094,320Estimate
201595,899Estimate
202095,170Estimate
202595,281Estimate
203094,812Projection
203594,440Projection
204093,463Projection
204592,613Projection
205091,252Projection

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