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Muktagacha, 
Bangladesh
203,965 people lived in Muktagacha in 2025. It is the 2927th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 63rd 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 Muktagacha grew
Count 10 people in Muktagacha in 1975 and the same count gives 13.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 317,719 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: 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
Muktagacha through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Muktagacha 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). Muktagacha 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, Muktagacha covered 52 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.9 km² of it. That is 14 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 2.9 times its size, and its people have grown by 86%.
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 Muktagacha, which is 203,965 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 Muktagacha; 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
- 2921 Nanxun China204,276
- 2922 Batkhela Pakistan204,156
- 2924 Asarganj India204,072
- 2926 Livingstone Zambia203,972
- 2927 Muktagacha203,965
- 2933 Duekoue Côte d’Ivoire203,323
- 2940 Bajil Yemen202,715
- 2948 Supaul India202,024
- 2957 Sakhakot Pakistan201,598
In Bangladesh, 2025
- 2589 Kazipur227,234
- 2639 Habiganj223,874
- 2824 Madaripur210,635
- 2864 Kulaura208,075
- 2927 Muktagacha203,965
- 2970 Narayanpur201,100
- 2986 Trishal200,492
- 3187 Mathbarer Char188,871
- 3291 Afamolla183,242
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Muktagacha 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 Muktagacha 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