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Trang Bang — UN urban centre

158,834

Trang Bang: 158,834 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,812 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5213; 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: 11.0259, 106.372. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
200061,601Estimate
200572,469Estimate
201084,896Estimate
2015113,998Estimate
2020132,121Estimate
2025158,834Estimate
2030174,057Projection
2035204,759Projection
2040237,427Projection
2045249,716Projection
2050259,900Projection

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