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Lạng Sơn — UN urban centre

103,500

Lạng Sơn: 103,500 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #5,988 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3150; 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: 21.8558, 106.7615. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197553,053Estimate
198065,986Estimate
198578,580Estimate
199086,628Estimate
199596,549Estimate
2000101,675Estimate
2005107,487Estimate
2010111,327Estimate
2015109,178Estimate
2020102,977Estimate
2025103,500Estimate
2030103,145Projection
2035102,679Projection
2040101,858Projection
2045100,882Projection
205099,056Projection

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