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Bến Tre, 
Vietnam
156,097 people lived in Bến Tre in 2025. It is the 3881st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 40th largest in Vietnam.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Bến Tre's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Bến Tre grew
For every 10 people in Bến Tre in 1975, there were 29.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 336,380 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Bến Tre through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bến Tre in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Vietnam · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 137 cities in Vietnam in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Ho Chi Minh City. The ringed dot in colour is Bến Tre; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Bến Tre covered 49 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 9.0 km² of it. That is 58 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 8 by 8 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 5 times its size, and its people have grown by 47%.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in Vietnam
Its share of Vietnam
Of every 1,000 people in Vietnam in 2025, 2 lived in Bến Tre, which is 156,097 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Vietnam, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Bến Tre's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 3846 ad-Damer Sudan157,497
- 3864 Debre Birhan Ethiopia156,788
- 3870 Kafr Saqr Egypt156,498
- 3871 Shahabad India156,497
- 3881 Bến Tre156,097
- 3883 Madaoua Niger156,053
- 3886 Musanze Rwanda155,984
- 3895 Katoro Tanzania155,625
- 3914 Sodo Ethiopia154,912
In Vietnam, 2025
- 2368 Phan Thiết246,665
- 2438 Phan Rang – Tháp Chàm240,480
- 2450 Đà Lạt239,212
- 3066 Củ Chi195,626
- 3881 Bến Tre156,097
- 5479 Việt Trì112,591
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Bến Tre are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1975 to 2025, then projection to 2050. Projected years are drawn hatched, and the UN publishes no range of uncertainty for a city. What a city means here, how the UN measures one, and why that number can differ from the one Bến Tre publishes about itself: how the figures here are put together.
Sources: UN WUP 2025 · Natural Earth · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries