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Golapganj, 
Bangladesh
306,017 people lived in Golapganj in 2025. It is the 1880th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 38th 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 Golapganj grew
Count 10 people in Golapganj in 2010 and the same count gives 24.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 467,704 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025. The UN first counts it as a city in 2010, 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
Golapganj through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Golapganj 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 Golapganj; 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, Golapganj covered 130 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.2 km² of it. That is 17 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2010, its built-up land has grown to 2.9 times its size, and its people are 2.4 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 Golapganj, which is 306,017 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Bangladesh; the coloured squares live in Golapganj. 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
- 1876 Dessie Ethiopia306,979
- 1877 Wakefield United Kingdom306,684
- 1878 Bankura India306,650
- 1879 Cenxi China306,146
- 1880 Golapganj306,017
- 1881 Mek'elē Ethiopia305,037
- 1882 Veys Iran304,967
- 1883 Benipur India304,786
- 1884 Gaoming China304,429
In Bangladesh, 2025
- 1744 Faridpur329,383
- 1786 Shariatpur321,804
- 1809 Nazirhat317,240
- 1860 Sandwip309,439
- 1880 Golapganj306,017
- 1909 Shaistaganj300,465
- 1948 Moulvibazar297,098
- 2141 Chengarchar271,704
- 2143 Thakurgaon271,454
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 Golapganj are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2010 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 Golapganj 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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