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Hải Dương — UN urban centre

323,442

Hải Dương: 323,442 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,776 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2912; 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: 20.9341, 106.3082. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975138,587Estimate
1980135,686Estimate
1985157,201Estimate
1990181,409Estimate
1995247,580Estimate
2000220,714Estimate
2005287,124Estimate
2010299,661Estimate
2015310,858Estimate
2020321,719Estimate
2025323,442Estimate
2030322,417Projection
2035321,003Projection
2040318,477Projection
2045315,405Projection
2050309,675Projection

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