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Nandail, 
Bangladesh
354,872 people lived in Nandail in 2025. It is the 1607th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 30th largest in Bangladesh.
Like every city on this site, Nandail is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Nandail grew
Where Nandail had 10 people in 2010, it had 33.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 883,524 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025. The UN first counts it as a city in 2010, 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
Nandail through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Nandail in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Bangladesh · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Nandail is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Bangladesh in 2025, 233 in all, led by Dhaka, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Nandail covered 186 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.9 km² of it. That is 17 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2010, its built-up land has grown to 4.5 times its size, and its people are 3.4 times as many.
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, 2 lived in Nandail, which is 354,872 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 Nandail's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1603 Satara India355,609
- 1604 Dhubri India355,592
- 1605 Fukuyama Japan355,352
- 1606 McAllen United States355,331
- 1607 Nandail354,872
- 1608 Balyana Egypt354,769
- 1609 Massawa Eritrea354,657
- 1610 Anápolis Brazil354,576
- 1611 Yongzhou China354,335
In Bangladesh, 2025
- 1374 Kushtia410,514
- 1409 Feni401,506
- 1432 Dinajpur396,235
- 1512 Lalpur375,833
- 1607 Nandail354,872
- 1659 Jamalpur345,132
- 1674 Sherpur341,630
- 1688 Naogaon338,623
- 1744 Faridpur329,383
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 Nandail are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2010 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 Nandail 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