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Songkhla — UN urban centre

213,186

Songkhla: 213,186 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,781 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3634; 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: 7.1746, 100.5986. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
199562,182Estimate
200096,921Estimate
2005132,243Estimate
2010165,073Estimate
2015182,327Estimate
2020214,012Estimate
2025213,186Estimate
2030211,220Projection
2035209,305Projection
2040206,406Projection
2045203,125Projection
2050199,315Projection

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