Sơn La — UN urban centre
Sơn La: 67,957 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #9,124 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 476; 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: 21.3307, 103.9152. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 55,186 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 61,925 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 66,793 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 73,147 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 72,955 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 67,829 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 67,957 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 67,506 | Projection |
| 2035 | 67,273 | Projection |
| 2040 | 66,806 | Projection |
| 2045 | 66,507 | Projection |
| 2050 | 65,648 | Projection |
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