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Kyauktaga — UN urban centre

53,484

Kyauktaga: 53,484 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #11,508 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5564; 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: 18.1551, 96.6145. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197554,750Estimate
198055,166Estimate
198555,815Estimate
199054,440Estimate
199555,506Estimate
200056,152Estimate
200556,811Estimate
201055,988Estimate
201555,019Estimate
202053,305Estimate
202553,484Estimate
203053,338Projection
203553,252Projection
204052,825Projection
204552,489Projection
205051,863Projection

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