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Pabna, 
Bangladesh
436,119 people lived in Pabna in 2025. It is the 1283rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 23rd 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 Pabna grew
Count 10 people in Pabna in 1975 and the same count gives 17.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 492,228 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
Pabna through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Pabna 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 Pabna; 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, Pabna covered 45 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.9 km² of it. That is 16 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 6.9 times its size, and its people have grown by 69%.
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, 2 lived in Pabna, which is 436,119 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Bangladesh; the coloured squares live in Pabna. 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
- 1279 Cuddalore India436,495
- 1280 Chiayi Taiwan436,393
- 1281 Oron Nigeria436,247
- 1282 Guang'an China436,199
- 1283 Pabna436,119
- 1284 Sterling Heights United States435,980
- 1285 Sambhal India435,760
- 1286 Gaozhou China435,368
- 1287 Seremban Malaysia434,530
In Bangladesh, 2025
- 1211 Elenga459,645
- 1215 Barishal457,323
- 1245 Sirajganj446,632
- 1251 Tangail444,219
- 1283 Pabna436,119
- 1301 Chandpur430,144
- 1372 Belkuchi410,861
- 1374 Kushtia410,514
- 1409 Feni401,506
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 Pabna 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 Pabna 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 →
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