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Akhaura, 
Bangladesh
165,093 people lived in Akhaura in 2025. It is the 3667th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 84th largest in Bangladesh.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Akhaura grew
Count 10 people in Akhaura in 1995 and the same count gives 26.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 328,286 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2045 and 2050. The UN first counts it as a city in 1995, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Akhaura through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Akhaura in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Bangladesh · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 233 cities in Bangladesh in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Dhaka. The ringed dot in colour is Akhaura; 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, Akhaura covered 58 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.4 km² of it. That is 21 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown to 2.6 times its size, and its people have grown by 92%.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in Bangladesh
Its share of Bangladesh
Of every 1,000 people in Bangladesh in 2025, 1 lived in Akhaura, which is 165,093 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Bangladesh, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Akhaura's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 3628 Unguwar Arewa Nigeria166,817
- 3631 Zalmat Hubaysh Yemen166,653
- 3652 Matta Pakistan165,993
- 3659 Sandoa Democratic Republic of the Congo165,522
- 3667 Akhaura165,093
- 3670 Geita Tanzania165,000
- 3680 Iksan-si South Korea164,566
- 3687 Embu Kenya164,283
- 3695 Durame Ethiopia163,896
In Bangladesh, 2025
- 3423 Madhabpur176,480
- 3538 Beanibazar171,417
- 3560 Shahrasti169,908
- 3611 Ulipur167,347
- 3667 Akhaura165,093
- 3712 Delduar163,064
- 3740 Fenchuganj161,718
- 4569 Rajoir133,428
- 5613 Gouripur109,980
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 Akhaura are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1995 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 Akhaura 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