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Dinajpur, 
Bangladesh
396,235 people lived in Dinajpur in 2025. It is the 1432nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 28th largest in Bangladesh.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Dinajpur 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 Dinajpur grew
Where Dinajpur had 10 people in 1975, it had 14.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 475,746 people in 2050.
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
Dinajpur through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Dinajpur in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Bangladesh · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Dinajpur 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, Dinajpur covered 40 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.5 km² of it. That is 16 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.4 times its size, and its people have grown by 43%.
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 Dinajpur, which is 396,235 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Bangladesh; the coloured squares live in Dinajpur. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1428 Alicante Spain397,948
- 1429 Heze China397,886
- 1430 Madiun Indonesia397,871
- 1431 Mit Habib Egypt397,104
- 1432 Dinajpur396,235
- 1433 Parakou Benin395,528
- 1434 Xinxing China395,115
- 1435 Khandwa India394,910
- 1436 Colorado Springs United States394,888
In Bangladesh, 2025
- 1301 Chandpur430,144
- 1372 Belkuchi410,861
- 1374 Kushtia410,514
- 1409 Feni401,506
- 1432 Dinajpur396,235
- 1512 Lalpur375,833
- 1607 Nandail354,872
- 1659 Jamalpur345,132
- 1674 Sherpur341,630
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 Dinajpur 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 Dinajpur 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