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Chandanaish, 
Bangladesh
928,788 people lived in Chandanaish in 2025. It is the 560th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 9th 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 Chandanaish grew
Where Chandanaish had 10 people in 1980, it had 123.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.3 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes a million people between 2025 and 2030. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, 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
Chandanaish through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Chandanaish in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Bangladesh · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Chandanaish 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, Chandanaish covered 361 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 18 km² of it. That is 19 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 7.1 times its size, and its people are 3.9 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, 5 lived in Chandanaish, which is 928,788 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 Chandanaish's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 556 Samarqand Uzbekistan932,219
- 557 Banjarmasin Indonesia930,711
- 558 Ma'anshan China929,836
- 559 Teresina Brazil929,795
- 560 Chandanaish928,788
- 561 Jos Nigeria923,652
- 562 Libreville Gabon921,216
- 563 Jerusalem Israel920,478
- 564 Xuchang China916,553
In Bangladesh, 2025
- 387 Kishoreganj1,324,096
- 409 Sylhet1,242,548
- 475 Khulna1,074,134
- 488 Kutubdia1,053,339
- 560 Chandanaish928,788
- 709 Rajshahi755,347
- 740 Louhajang725,057
- 802 Mymensingh677,433
- 823 Bogura661,378
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 Chandanaish are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Chandanaish 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