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Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya — UN urban centre

211,344

Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya: 211,344 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,811 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2583; territory: Thailand (THA). 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: 14.3524, 100.5822. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
199054,542Estimate
199593,274Estimate
2000193,577Estimate
2005147,106Estimate
2010126,342Estimate
2015177,083Estimate
2020197,674Estimate
2025211,344Estimate
2030224,118Projection
2035239,511Projection
2040248,726Projection
2045280,892Projection
2050293,124Projection

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