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Phan Rang – Tháp Chàm — UN urban centre

240,480

Phan Rang – Tháp Chàm: 240,480 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,438 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6341; 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: 11.5703, 108.9936. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
198054,734Estimate
198561,012Estimate
199089,852Estimate
1995104,036Estimate
2000118,805Estimate
2005126,069Estimate
2010142,455Estimate
2015148,565Estimate
2020153,718Estimate
2025240,480Estimate
2030265,326Projection
2035291,545Projection
2040325,772Projection
2045346,674Projection
2050397,518Projection

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