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Chengarchar, 
Bangladesh
271,704 people lived in Chengarchar in 2025. It is the 2141st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 41st largest in Bangladesh.
Like every city on this site, Chengarchar is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Chengarchar grew
Count 10 people in Chengarchar in 1995 and the same count gives 28.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 513,557 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025. The UN first counts it as a city in 1995, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Chengarchar through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Chengarchar 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 Chengarchar; 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, Chengarchar covered 151 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.2 km² of it. That is 15 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown to 4.2 times its size, and its people are 2.3 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, 2 lived in Chengarchar, which is 271,704 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 Chengarchar's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2134 Dalla India272,778
- 2138 Guna India271,913
- 2139 Gunung Lingkas Indonesia271,868
- 2140 Zacatecas Mexico271,829
- 2141 Chengarchar271,704
- 2143 Thakurgaon271,454
- 2148 Kimberley South Africa271,078
- 2149 Jind India270,881
- 2150 Hassan India270,626
In Bangladesh, 2025
- 1860 Sandwip309,439
- 1880 Golapganj306,017
- 1909 Shaistaganj300,465
- 1948 Moulvibazar297,098
- 2141 Chengarchar271,704
- 2143 Thakurgaon271,454
- 2157 Saghatta270,148
- 2312 Sunamganj251,822
- 2321 Rangunia250,564
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Chengarchar are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1995 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 Chengarchar 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