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Cities · Bangladesh · 24.3° N, 89.7° E
Belkuchi, 
Bangladesh
505,615 people lived in Belkuchi (24.3° N, 89.7° E) in 2025. It is the 1095th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 17th largest in Bangladesh.
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 Belkuchi's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Belkuchi grew
Where Belkuchi had 10 people in 1975, it had 24.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 599,980 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1975 and 1980.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Belkuchi through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Belkuchi 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 Belkuchi; 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, Belkuchi covered 98 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.0 km² of it. That is 12 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 5.5 times its size, and its people have grown by 58%.
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, 3 lived in Belkuchi, which is 505,615 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 Belkuchi's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1091 Shunyi China507,591
- 1092 Malatya Türkiye506,854
- 1093 Kashgar China506,476
- 1094 Kohat Pakistan506,145
- 1095 Belkuchi505,615
- 1096 Jingjiang China505,098
- 1097 Mansehra Pakistan503,920
- 1098 Bakersfield United States503,676
- 1099 Nha Trang Vietnam503,051
In Bangladesh, 2025
- 823 Bogura661,378
- 842 Rangpur641,327
- 893 Chapainawabganj607,924
- 950 Jashore578,026
- 1095 Belkuchi505,615
- 1182 Cox's Bazar470,100
- 1211 Elenga459,645
- 1215 Barishal457,323
- 1245 Sirajganj446,632
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Belkuchi 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 Belkuchi 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