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Chapainawabganj, 
Bangladesh
607,924 people lived in Chapainawabganj in 2025. It is the 893rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 15th largest in Bangladesh.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Chapainawabganj 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 Chapainawabganj grew
For every 10 people in Chapainawabganj in 1975, there were 25.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 687,820 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1980 and 1985.
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
Chapainawabganj through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Chapainawabganj 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 Chapainawabganj; 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, Chapainawabganj covered 102 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 11 km² of it. That is 18 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 7.9 times its size, and its people are 2.5 times as many.
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, 3 lived in Chapainawabganj, which is 607,924 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 Chapainawabganj's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 889 Xingning China609,923
- 890 Kasur Pakistan609,468
- 891 Sfax Tunisia608,293
- 892 Beira Mozambique608,097
- 893 Chapainawabganj607,924
- 894 Zhaoqing China607,624
- 895 Bihar Sharif India607,401
- 896 Zhangjiakou China606,124
- 897 Shibin Al-Kom Egypt605,913
In Bangladesh, 2025
- 740 Louhajang725,057
- 802 Mymensingh677,433
- 823 Bogura661,378
- 842 Rangpur641,327
- 893 Chapainawabganj607,924
- 950 Jashore578,026
- 1095 Belkuchi505,615
- 1182 Cox's Bazar470,100
- 1211 Elenga459,645
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 Chapainawabganj 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 Chapainawabganj 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