Hải Phòng — UN urban centre
Hải Phòng: 1,015,494 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #508 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 3966; 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: 20.8624, 106.6769. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 570,542 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 643,258 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 712,321 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 767,770 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 833,715 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 852,926 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 903,160 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 987,670 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,036,790 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,009,250 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,015,494 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,009,303 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,004,335 | Projection |
| 2040 | 995,890 | Projection |
| 2045 | 984,094 | Projection |
| 2050 | 965,964 | Projection |
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