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Jamalpur, 
Bangladesh
345,132 people lived in Jamalpur in 2025. It is the 1659th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 31st largest in Bangladesh.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Jamalpur's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Jamalpur grew
Where Jamalpur had 10 people in 1975, it had 13.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 406,987 people in 2050.
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
Jamalpur through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Jamalpur 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 Jamalpur; 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, Jamalpur covered 33 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.3 km² of it. That is 10 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 3.3 times its size, and its people have grown by 34%.
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, 2 lived in Jamalpur, which is 345,132 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 Jamalpur; 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
- 1655 Safi Morocco345,865
- 1656 Ras Al Khaimah United Arab Emirates345,621
- 1657 Bukalasi Uganda345,288
- 1658 Ngaoundéré Cameroon345,148
- 1659 Jamalpur345,132
- 1660 Dili Timor-Leste345,038
- 1661 Guankou China344,468
- 1662 Augsburg Germany344,255
- 1663 Kansas City United States344,125
In Bangladesh, 2025
- 1409 Feni401,506
- 1432 Dinajpur396,235
- 1512 Lalpur375,833
- 1607 Nandail354,872
- 1659 Jamalpur345,132
- 1674 Sherpur341,630
- 1688 Naogaon338,623
- 1744 Faridpur329,383
- 1786 Shariatpur321,804
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 Jamalpur 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 Jamalpur 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