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Myaung Mya — UN urban centre

190,818

Myaung Mya: 190,818 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,144 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4049; 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: 16.6018, 94.9264. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975124,190Estimate
1980135,143Estimate
1985152,279Estimate
1990165,655Estimate
1995181,429Estimate
2000195,599Estimate
2005202,573Estimate
2010205,763Estimate
2015202,320Estimate
2020178,470Estimate
2025190,818Estimate
2030217,185Projection
2035230,928Projection
2040243,191Projection
2045255,422Projection
2050266,243Projection

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