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Madhabpur, 
Bangladesh
176,480 people lived in Madhabpur in 2025. It is the 3423rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 78th 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 Madhabpur's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Madhabpur grew
Where Madhabpur had 10 people in 1990, it had 33.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 303,177 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2035 and 2040. The UN first counts it as a city in 1990, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Madhabpur through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Madhabpur 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). Madhabpur 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, Madhabpur covered 47 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.1 km² of it. That is 18 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown by 55%, and its people have grown by 39%.
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, 1 lived in Madhabpur, which is 176,480 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 Madhabpur; 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
- 3415 Handia India176,779
- 3417 Guzarah Afghanistan176,657
- 3418 Lwambo Democratic Republic of the Congo176,648
- 3422 Nkongsamba Cameroon176,511
- 3423 Madhabpur176,480
- 3428 Islampur India176,380
- 3433 Hayfan Yemen176,151
- 3434 Layyah Pakistan176,125
- 3451 Pingtung City Taiwan175,377
In Bangladesh, 2025
- 2986 Trishal200,492
- 3187 Mathbarer Char188,871
- 3291 Afamolla183,242
- 3383 Bahubal178,981
- 3423 Madhabpur176,480
- 3538 Beanibazar171,417
- 3560 Shahrasti169,908
- 3611 Ulipur167,347
- 3667 Akhaura165,093
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 Madhabpur are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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 Madhabpur 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