Thanh Hoá — UN urban centre
Thanh Hoá: 271,171 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,145 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2973; 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: 19.8035, 105.7805. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 123,575 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 132,913 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 153,866 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 177,019 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 196,551 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 221,530 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 228,443 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 236,603 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 262,929 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 273,105 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 271,171 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 263,199 | Projection |
| 2035 | 259,597 | Projection |
| 2040 | 249,799 | Projection |
| 2045 | 243,359 | Projection |
| 2050 | 236,664 | Projection |
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