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Phan Thiết — UN urban centre

246,665

Phan Thiết: 246,665 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,368 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6179; 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: 10.9372, 108.1022. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197579,113Estimate
198098,550Estimate
1985113,553Estimate
1990127,774Estimate
1995142,594Estimate
2000189,869Estimate
2005202,489Estimate
2010222,894Estimate
2015227,454Estimate
2020221,658Estimate
2025246,665Estimate
2030277,523Projection
2035321,783Projection
2040353,686Projection
2045372,331Projection
2050391,191Projection

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