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Nazirhat, 
Bangladesh
317,240 people lived in Nazirhat in 2025. It is the 1809th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 36th largest in Bangladesh.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Nazirhat governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Nazirhat grew
Where Nazirhat had 10 people in 1975, it had 54 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 496,348 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Nazirhat through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Nazirhat 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). Nazirhat 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, Nazirhat covered 113 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.8 km² of it. That is 21 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 3 times its size, and its people have grown by 56%.
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 Nazirhat, which is 317,240 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Bangladesh; the coloured squares live in Nazirhat. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1805 Qili China318,490
- 1806 Malmo Sweden318,242
- 1807 Dumai Indonesia317,280
- 1808 Al-Qadarif Sudan317,258
- 1809 Nazirhat317,240
- 1810 Magnitogorsk Russia317,107
- 1811 Bhusawal India317,085
- 1812 Hazaribagh India316,861
- 1813 Surendranagar India316,206
In Bangladesh, 2025
- 1674 Sherpur341,630
- 1688 Naogaon338,623
- 1744 Faridpur329,383
- 1786 Shariatpur321,804
- 1809 Nazirhat317,240
- 1860 Sandwip309,439
- 1880 Golapganj306,017
- 1909 Shaistaganj300,465
- 1948 Moulvibazar297,098
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 Nazirhat 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 Nazirhat 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