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Afamolla, 
Bangladesh
183,242 people lived in Afamolla in 2025. It is the 3291st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 73rd largest in Bangladesh.
Like every city on this site, Afamolla is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Afamolla grew
Count 10 people in Afamolla in 2020 and the same count gives 13.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 414,377 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2030 and 2035. The UN first counts it as a city in 2020, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Afamolla through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Afamolla in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Bangladesh · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Bangladesh and its 233 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Dhaka). Afamolla is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Afamolla covered 103 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.2 km² of it. That is 17 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2020, its built-up land has grown by 60%, and its people have grown by 36%.
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 Bangladesh
Its share of Bangladesh
Of every 1,000 people in Bangladesh in 2025, 1 lived in Afamolla, which is 183,242 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Bangladesh; the coloured squares live in Afamolla. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 3269 Atakpamé Togo184,404
- 3271 Brikama Gambia184,321
- 3278 Akugba Nigeria183,921
- 3287 Koudougou Burkina Faso183,409
- 3291 Afamolla183,242
- 3311 Sumbawanga Tanzania181,940
- 3313 Kotli Pakistan181,837
- 3314 Al-Wasitah Egypt181,776
- 3335 Taraz Kazakhstan180,844
In Bangladesh, 2025
- 2927 Muktagacha203,965
- 2970 Narayanpur201,100
- 2986 Trishal200,492
- 3187 Mathbarer Char188,871
- 3291 Afamolla183,242
- 3383 Bahubal178,981
- 3423 Madhabpur176,480
- 3538 Beanibazar171,417
- 3560 Shahrasti169,908
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Afamolla are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2020 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 Afamolla 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