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Cái Dầu — UN urban centre

89,452

Cái Dầu: 89,452 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #6,941 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4599; 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: 10.5663, 105.2584. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
199554,700Estimate
200079,015Estimate
200579,038Estimate
201084,812Estimate
201585,641Estimate
202087,409Estimate
202589,452Estimate
203090,735Projection
203591,575Projection
204092,098Projection
204592,187Projection
205091,499Projection

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