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Châu Đốc — UN urban centre

145,686

Châu Đốc: 145,686 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,187 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4451; 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: 10.7067, 105.1302. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197566,644Estimate
198066,521Estimate
198574,156Estimate
199083,817Estimate
1995108,182Estimate
2000118,104Estimate
2005116,538Estimate
2010130,757Estimate
2015136,584Estimate
2020139,805Estimate
2025145,686Estimate
2030147,781Projection
2035149,152Projection
2040150,006Projection
2045150,208Projection
2050149,143Projection

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