Mỹ Tho — UN urban centre
Mỹ Tho: 565,906 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #969 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5243; 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: 10.464, 106.3699. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 144,414 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 154,784 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 176,167 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 232,048 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 377,223 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 425,299 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 439,258 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 475,536 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 494,647 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 484,784 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 565,906 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 646,418 | Projection |
| 2035 | 793,000 | Projection |
| 2040 | 872,530 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,044,151 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,193,562 | Projection |
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