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Rạch Giá — UN urban centre

273,864

Rạch Giá: 273,864 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,119 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4562; 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: 9.9881, 105.0989. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197564,598Estimate
198068,719Estimate
198591,787Estimate
1990148,955Estimate
1995160,418Estimate
2000197,902Estimate
2005225,332Estimate
2010246,149Estimate
2015260,447Estimate
2020268,922Estimate
2025273,864Estimate
2030277,917Projection
2035279,747Projection
2040290,552Projection
2045290,689Projection
2050288,376Projection

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