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Kishoreganj, 
Bangladesh
1,324,096 people lived in Kishoreganj in 2025. It is the 387th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 5th 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 Kishoreganj's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Kishoreganj grew
For every 10 people in Kishoreganj in 1975, there were 52.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 2.5 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2015 and 2020.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Kishoreganj through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kishoreganj in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Bangladesh · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Kishoreganj is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Bangladesh in 2025, 233 in all, led by Dhaka, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Kishoreganj covered 468 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 20 km² of it. That is 15 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 19.9 times its size, and its people are 5.2 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, 8 lived in Kishoreganj, which is 1.3 million people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Bangladesh; the coloured squares live in Kishoreganj. 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
- 383 Mardan Pakistan1,330,031
- 384 Cần Thơ Vietnam1,327,741
- 385 Zhongshan China1,326,078
- 386 Samarinda Indonesia1,325,554
- 387 Kishoreganj1,324,096
- 388 Anshan China1,322,386
- 389 Managua Nicaragua1,315,865
- 390 Yichang China1,314,779
- 391 Asunción Paraguay1,314,663
In Bangladesh, 2025
- 2 Dhaka36,585,479
- 83 Chattogram4,983,553
- 133 Savar3,557,381
- 169 Brahmanbaria2,914,727
- 387 Kishoreganj1,324,096
- 409 Sylhet1,242,548
- 475 Khulna1,074,134
- 488 Kutubdia1,053,339
- 560 Chandanaish928,788
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 Kishoreganj 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 Kishoreganj 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