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Bahubal, 
Bangladesh
178,981 people lived in Bahubal in 2025. It is the 3383rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 76th 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 Bahubal grew
Count 10 people in Bahubal in 2015 and the same count gives 18.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 313,566 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040. The UN first counts it as a city in 2015, 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
Bahubal through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bahubal 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). Bahubal 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, Bahubal covered 81 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.2 km² of it. That is 18 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2015, its built-up land has grown to 2.3 times its size, and its people have grown by 81%.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in Bangladesh
Its share of Bangladesh
Of every 1,000 people in Bangladesh in 2025, 1 lived in Bahubal, which is 178,981 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Bangladesh; the coloured squares live in Bahubal. 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
- 3335 Taraz Kazakhstan180,844
- 3348 Beni Muhammadiyat Egypt180,286
- 3355 Sinkāt Sudan180,082
- 3375 Nouadhibou Mauritania179,362
- 3383 Bahubal178,981
- 3400 Oghi Pakistan177,887
- 3406 Dearborn Heights United States177,423
- 3415 Handia India176,779
- 3417 Guzarah Afghanistan176,657
In Bangladesh, 2025
- 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
- 3611 Ulipur167,347
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 Bahubal are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2015 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 Bahubal 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 →
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