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Moulvibazar, 
Bangladesh
297,098 people lived in Moulvibazar in 2025. It is the 1948th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 40th 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 Moulvibazar's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Moulvibazar grew
Where Moulvibazar had 10 people in 1975, it had 19.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 573,661 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015.
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
Moulvibazar through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Moulvibazar 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). Moulvibazar 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, Moulvibazar covered 29 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.9 km² of it. That is 10 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.9 times its size, and its people are 2 times 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, 2 lived in Moulvibazar, which is 297,098 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 Moulvibazar's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1944 Quy Nhơn Vietnam297,184
- 1945 Smolensk Russia297,177
- 1946 Al-Mahmudiya Egypt297,143
- 1947 Attingal India297,140
- 1948 Moulvibazar297,098
- 1949 Wenjiang China296,976
- 1950 Valsad India296,851
- 1951 Ankleshwar India296,840
- 1952 Najibabad India296,669
In Bangladesh, 2025
- 1809 Nazirhat317,240
- 1860 Sandwip309,439
- 1880 Golapganj306,017
- 1909 Shaistaganj300,465
- 1948 Moulvibazar297,098
- 2141 Chengarchar271,704
- 2143 Thakurgaon271,454
- 2157 Saghatta270,148
- 2312 Sunamganj251,822
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 Moulvibazar 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 Moulvibazar 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