Topics
Mymensingh, 
Bangladesh
677,433 people lived in Mymensingh in 2025. It is the 802nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 12th 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 Mymensingh'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 Mymensingh grew
Where Mymensingh had 10 people in 1975, it had 19 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 785,703 people in 2050.
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.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Mymensingh through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Mymensingh 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 Mymensingh; 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, Mymensingh covered 62 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 9.1 km² of it. That is 13 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.2 times its size, and its people have grown by 90%.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in Bangladesh
Its share of Bangladesh
Of every 1,000 people in Bangladesh in 2025, 4 lived in Mymensingh, which is 677,433 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 Mymensingh's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 798 Kitwe Zambia678,749
- 799 Jingzhou China678,632
- 800 Ankang China678,483
- 801 Yamunanagar India677,536
- 802 Mymensingh677,433
- 803 Shangqiu China676,590
- 804 Bazhong City China675,756
- 805 Barcelona Venezuela674,757
- 806 Sha Tin Hong Kong674,476
In Bangladesh, 2025
- 488 Kutubdia1,053,339
- 560 Chandanaish928,788
- 709 Rajshahi755,347
- 740 Louhajang725,057
- 802 Mymensingh677,433
- 823 Bogura661,378
- 842 Rangpur641,327
- 893 Chapainawabganj607,924
- 950 Jashore578,026
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 Mymensingh 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 Mymensingh 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