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Pyin Oo Lwin — UN urban centre

149,076

Pyin Oo Lwin: 149,076 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,069 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3580; 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: 22.0312, 96.4776. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975109,756Estimate
1980117,304Estimate
1985123,196Estimate
1990130,482Estimate
1995138,669Estimate
2000145,340Estimate
2005149,810Estimate
2010150,622Estimate
2015151,200Estimate
2020148,996Estimate
2025149,076Estimate
2030148,250Projection
2035147,506Projection
2040145,816Projection
2045144,268Projection
2050141,924Projection

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