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Madaripur, 
Bangladesh
210,635 people lived in Madaripur in 2025. It is the 2824th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 59th largest in Bangladesh.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Madaripur 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 Madaripur grew
Count 10 people in Madaripur in 1975 and the same count gives 15.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 369,789 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: 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
Madaripur through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Madaripur 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 Madaripur; 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, Madaripur covered 24 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.1 km² of it. That is 10 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown to 2.1 times its size, and its people are about 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, 1 lived in Madaripur, which is 210,635 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Bangladesh, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Madaripur's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2801 Koliwar India211,825
- 2807 Dashoguz Turkmenistan211,569
- 2808 Wuxue China211,544
- 2817 Kabondo-Dianda Democratic Republic of the Congo211,167
- 2824 Madaripur210,635
- 2827 Ennerdale South Africa210,428
- 2835 Blitta-Gare Togo209,755
- 2843 Depalpur Pakistan209,417
- 2844 Al Jahra Kuwait209,224
In Bangladesh, 2025
- 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
- 2986 Trishal200,492
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 Madaripur 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 Madaripur 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