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Faridpur, 
Bangladesh
329,383 people lived in Faridpur in 2025. It is the 1744th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 34th largest in Bangladesh.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Faridpur grew
Where Faridpur had 10 people in 1975, it had 16.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 333,469 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995.
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
Faridpur through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Faridpur 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 Faridpur; 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, Faridpur covered 28 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.9 km² of it. That is 12 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 3.3 times its size, and its people have grown by 33%.
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 Faridpur, which is 329,383 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 Faridpur; 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
- 1740 Riwoto South Sudan330,053
- 1741 Plovdiv Bulgaria329,838
- 1742 Narmashir Iran329,526
- 1743 Greater Noida India329,385
- 1744 Faridpur329,383
- 1745 Kumba Cameroon329,340
- 1746 Shiblanga Egypt328,820
- 1747 Abu Tig Egypt328,639
- 1748 Shizuoka Japan328,613
In Bangladesh, 2025
- 1607 Nandail354,872
- 1659 Jamalpur345,132
- 1674 Sherpur341,630
- 1688 Naogaon338,623
- 1744 Faridpur329,383
- 1786 Shariatpur321,804
- 1809 Nazirhat317,240
- 1860 Sandwip309,439
- 1880 Golapganj306,017
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 Faridpur 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 Faridpur 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 →
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