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Kon Tum — UN urban centre

154,938

Kon Tum: 154,938 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,913 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5714; 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: 14.3579, 108.0045. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
199556,354Estimate
200073,154Estimate
200582,990Estimate
2010101,652Estimate
2015114,188Estimate
2020127,950Estimate
2025154,938Estimate
2030158,950Projection
2035162,640Projection
2040169,082Projection
2045171,756Projection
2050172,983Projection

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