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Hinthada — UN urban centre

229,330

Hinthada: 229,330 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,562 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4486; 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: 17.6462, 95.4556. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975161,379Estimate
1980172,099Estimate
1985182,752Estimate
1990188,080Estimate
1995202,087Estimate
2000214,499Estimate
2005222,648Estimate
2010224,825Estimate
2015225,824Estimate
2020210,735Estimate
2025229,330Estimate
2030245,544Projection
2035260,301Projection
2040271,907Projection
2045283,557Projection
2050293,642Projection

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