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Kushtia, 
Bangladesh
410,514 people lived in Kushtia in 2025. It is the 1374th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 26th 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 Kushtia grew
Where Kushtia had 10 people in 1975, it had 13.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 460,772 people in 2050.
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
Kushtia through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kushtia in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Bangladesh · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Bangladesh and its 233 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Dhaka). Kushtia is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Kushtia covered 58 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.4 km² of it. That is 18 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 7.4 times its size, and its people have grown by 36%.
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 Kushtia, which is 410,514 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 Kushtia; 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
- 1370 Tashikeruike China411,163
- 1371 Bharuch India411,095
- 1372 Belkuchi410,861
- 1373 Albuquerque United States410,810
- 1374 Kushtia410,514
- 1375 Kongolo Democratic Republic of the Congo410,371
- 1376 Huangyan District China410,213
- 1377 Windhoek Namibia409,758
- 1378 Nganjuk Indonesia409,447
In Bangladesh, 2025
- 1251 Tangail444,219
- 1283 Pabna436,119
- 1301 Chandpur430,144
- 1372 Belkuchi410,861
- 1374 Kushtia410,514
- 1409 Feni401,506
- 1432 Dinajpur396,235
- 1512 Lalpur375,833
- 1607 Nandail354,872
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 Kushtia 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 Kushtia 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