Mollar Char, Bangladesh

Count 10 people in Mollar Char in 1985 and the same count gives 39.7 in 2025.

On the UN's projection it will have 372,431 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2025 and 2030. The UN first counts it as a city in 1985, when it passed 50,000 people.

projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low

How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.

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 Mollar Char; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.

In 2025, Mollar Char covered 102 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.3 km² of it. That is 14 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown to 3.3 times its size, and its people have grown by 70%.

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 1,000 people in Bangladesh in 2025, 1 lived in Mollar Char, which is 228,869 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 Mollar Char; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.

In the world, 2025

1. 2548 Cockrell Hill United States230,727
2. 2554 Luputa Democratic Republic of the Congo230,128
3. 2560 Maymana Afghanistan229,355
4. 2564 Cobán Guatemala229,017
5. 2566 Mollar Char228,869
6. 2567 Masrakh India228,857
7. 2571 Jega Nigeria228,584
8. 2574 Puli Khumri Afghanistan228,271
9. 2575 Asmara Eritrea228,270

In Bangladesh, 2025

1. 2321 Rangunia250,564
2. 2362 Sreemangal247,298
3. 2373 Saidpur245,655
4. 2469 Manikganj237,163
5. 2566 Mollar Char228,869
6. 2589 Kazipur227,234
7. 2639 Habiganj223,874
8. 2824 Madaripur210,635
9. 2864 Kulaura208,075

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.

Bangladesh · All the world's cities

The figures for Mollar Char are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1985 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 Mollar Char 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 →

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