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Chandpur, 
Bangladesh
430,144 people lived in Chandpur in 2025. It is the 1301st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 24th largest in Bangladesh.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Chandpur 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 Chandpur grew
Count 10 people in Chandpur in 1975 and the same count gives 16.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 520,979 people in 2050.
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
Chandpur through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Chandpur in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Bangladesh · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Chandpur 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, Chandpur covered 39 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.2 km² of it. That is 7 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 2.5 times its size, and its people have grown by 19%.
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 Chandpur, which is 430,144 people.
How to read this: shrink Bangladesh to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Chandpur; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1297 Kosti Sudan431,504
- 1298 Florence Italy430,806
- 1299 Kisumu Kenya430,532
- 1300 Katihar India430,470
- 1301 Chandpur430,144
- 1302 Providence United States429,694
- 1303 Santiago de Cuba Cuba429,537
- 1304 Cheonan-si South Korea428,378
- 1305 Huidong China428,137
In Bangladesh, 2025
- 1215 Barishal457,323
- 1245 Sirajganj446,632
- 1251 Tangail444,219
- 1283 Pabna436,119
- 1301 Chandpur430,144
- 1372 Belkuchi410,861
- 1374 Kushtia410,514
- 1409 Feni401,506
- 1432 Dinajpur396,235
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 Chandpur 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 Chandpur 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