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Đà Nẵng — UN urban centre

1,142,621

Đà Nẵng: 1,142,621 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #454 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5489; 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: 16.0496, 108.2076. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975215,952Estimate
1980359,553Estimate
1985376,216Estimate
1990449,988Estimate
1995529,066Estimate
2000606,880Estimate
2005703,455Estimate
2010861,252Estimate
2015999,180Estimate
20201,131,410Estimate
20251,142,621Estimate
20301,142,728Projection
20351,141,744Projection
20401,136,807Projection
20451,130,752Projection
20501,115,167Projection

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