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Elenga, 
Bangladesh
459,645 people lived in Elenga in 2025. It is the 1211th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 19th largest in Bangladesh.
Like every city on this site, Elenga 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 Elenga grew
Where Elenga had 10 people in 1975, it had 36.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 951,242 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010.
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
Elenga through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Elenga 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 Elenga; 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, Elenga covered 193 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 9.4 km² of it. That is 20 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 7.8 times its size, and its people are 2.4 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, 3 lived in Elenga, which is 459,645 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Bangladesh; the coloured squares live in Elenga. 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
- 1207 Kismayo Somalia461,302
- 1208 Purnia India461,043
- 1209 Nagercoil India460,826
- 1210 Kota Bharu Malaysia460,445
- 1211 Elenga459,645
- 1212 Atlanta United States458,225
- 1213 Jhelum Pakistan457,793
- 1214 Al Abbasa al Sharqiya Egypt457,678
- 1215 Barishal457,323
In Bangladesh, 2025
- 893 Chapainawabganj607,924
- 950 Jashore578,026
- 1095 Belkuchi505,615
- 1182 Cox's Bazar470,100
- 1211 Elenga459,645
- 1215 Barishal457,323
- 1245 Sirajganj446,632
- 1251 Tangail444,219
- 1283 Pabna436,119
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 Elenga 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 Elenga 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