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Trang — UN urban centre

72,063

Trang: 72,063 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #8,635 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2784; 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: 7.5595, 99.6112. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197585,839Estimate
198093,668Estimate
198594,214Estimate
199094,890Estimate
199592,746Estimate
200086,358Estimate
200587,087Estimate
201089,269Estimate
201583,981Estimate
202072,408Estimate
202572,063Estimate
203071,333Projection
203570,609Projection
204069,553Projection
204568,675Projection
205067,411Projection

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