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Hpa-An — UN urban centre

271,474

Hpa-An: 271,474 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,142 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5910; 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: 16.8786, 97.639. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975102,713Estimate
1980125,792Estimate
1985148,502Estimate
1990166,272Estimate
1995190,925Estimate
2000218,717Estimate
2005240,037Estimate
2010255,379Estimate
2015267,028Estimate
2020270,468Estimate
2025271,474Estimate
2030270,828Projection
2035270,390Projection
2040268,220Projection
2045266,441Projection
2050263,191Projection

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