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Cẩm Phả — UN urban centre

148,560

Cẩm Phả: 148,560 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,084 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4300; 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: 21.0098, 107.2976. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197592,363Estimate
1980103,109Estimate
1985125,729Estimate
1990132,793Estimate
1995132,251Estimate
2000133,025Estimate
2005138,969Estimate
2010147,215Estimate
2015154,039Estimate
2020148,084Estimate
2025148,560Estimate
2030147,946Projection
2035147,120Projection
2040145,785Projection
2045144,177Projection
2050141,354Projection

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