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Đồng Hới — UN urban centre

84,444

Đồng Hới: 84,444 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #7,381 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4414; 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: 17.4654, 106.6049. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
200075,542Estimate
200578,760Estimate
201083,232Estimate
201584,858Estimate
202083,594Estimate
202584,444Estimate
203084,576Projection
203584,518Projection
204084,167Projection
204583,668Projection
205082,464Projection

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