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Hòa Bình — UN urban centre

68,279

Hòa Bình: 68,279 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #9,078 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1330; territory: Vietnam (VNM). 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: 20.8294, 105.3416. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
198056,225Estimate
198563,194Estimate
199069,101Estimate
199570,292Estimate
200069,539Estimate
200568,445Estimate
201071,962Estimate
201570,080Estimate
202067,901Estimate
202568,279Estimate
203068,078Projection
203567,771Projection
204067,229Projection
204566,545Projection
205065,300Projection

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