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Habiganj, 
Bangladesh
223,874 people lived in Habiganj in 2025. It is the 2639th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 58th largest in Bangladesh.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Habiganj 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 Habiganj grew
For every 10 people in Habiganj in 1975, there were 24.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 306,477 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2030 and 2035.
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
Habiganj through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Habiganj 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 Habiganj; 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, Habiganj covered 22 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.5 km² of it. That is 11 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 2.3 times its size, and its people have grown by 93%.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in Bangladesh
Its share of Bangladesh
Of every 1,000 people in Bangladesh in 2025, 1 lived in Habiganj, which is 223,874 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Bangladesh; the coloured squares live in Habiganj. 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
- 2624 Ile Oluji Nigeria224,781
- 2627 Manfalut Egypt224,667
- 2630 Ramgarh India224,417
- 2632 Navoiy Uzbekistan224,363
- 2639 Habiganj223,874
- 2641 Songea Tanzania223,567
- 2647 Mongo Chad223,205
- 2648 Ahmedpur East Pakistan223,056
- 2649 Buea Cameroon222,996
In Bangladesh, 2025
- 2373 Saidpur245,655
- 2469 Manikganj237,163
- 2566 Mollar Char228,869
- 2589 Kazipur227,234
- 2639 Habiganj223,874
- 2824 Madaripur210,635
- 2864 Kulaura208,075
- 2927 Muktagacha203,965
- 2970 Narayanpur201,100
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 Habiganj 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 Habiganj 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