Uông Bí — UN urban centre
Uông Bí: 71,091 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #8,731 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4095; 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: 21.0361, 106.7691. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 51,322 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 53,460 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 60,129 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 66,475 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 68,785 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 72,926 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 72,675 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 70,729 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 71,091 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 70,848 | Projection |
| 2035 | 70,509 | Projection |
| 2040 | 69,926 | Projection |
| 2045 | 69,216 | Projection |
| 2050 | 67,923 | Projection |
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