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Bến Tre — UN urban centre

156,097

Bến Tre: 156,097 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,881 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5381; 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: 10.2535, 106.3742. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197552,868Estimate
198062,689Estimate
198566,387Estimate
199075,868Estimate
1995105,891Estimate
2000143,117Estimate
2005135,797Estimate
2010136,357Estimate
2015139,432Estimate
2020138,448Estimate
2025156,097Estimate
2030172,217Projection
2035192,795Projection
2040284,121Projection
2045316,271Projection
2050336,380Projection

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