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Cities · Bangladesh · 24.2° N, 89.6° E
Belkuchi, 
Bangladesh
410,861 people lived in Belkuchi (24.2° N, 89.6° E) in 2025. It is the 1372nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 25th largest in Bangladesh.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Belkuchi governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Belkuchi grew
For every 10 people in Belkuchi in 1975, there were 31.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 480,067 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
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: Belkuchi is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Bangladesh in 2025, 233 in all, led by Dhaka, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Belkuchi covered 124 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.1 km² of it. That is 15 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 5.1 times its size, and its people are 2.3 times as many.
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, 2 lived in Belkuchi, which is 410,861 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
- 1368 Americana Brazil412,133
- 1369 Elazığ Türkiye411,268
- 1370 Tashikeruike China411,163
- 1371 Bharuch India411,095
- 1372 Belkuchi410,861
- 1373 Albuquerque United States410,810
- 1374 Kushtia410,514
- 1375 Kongolo Democratic Republic of the Congo410,371
- 1376 Huangyan District China410,213
In Bangladesh, 2025
- 1245 Sirajganj446,632
- 1251 Tangail444,219
- 1283 Pabna436,119
- 1301 Chandpur430,144
- 1372 Belkuchi410,861
- 1374 Kushtia410,514
- 1409 Feni401,506
- 1432 Dinajpur396,235
- 1512 Lalpur375,833
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