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Rajshahi, 
Bangladesh
755,347 people lived in Rajshahi in 2025. It is the 709th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 10th largest in Bangladesh.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Rajshahi 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 Rajshahi grew
Where Rajshahi had 10 people in 1975, it had 82.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 856,863 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1980 and 1985.
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
Rajshahi through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Rajshahi 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 Rajshahi; 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, Rajshahi covered 137 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 18 km² of it. That is 24 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 9.2 times its size, and its people are 8.3 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, 4 lived in Rajshahi, which is 755,347 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Bangladesh; the coloured squares live in Rajshahi. 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
- 705 Yola Nigeria758,153
- 706 Taxila Pakistan757,451
- 707 Xinyu China756,365
- 708 Bonn Germany756,044
- 709 Rajshahi755,347
- 710 Malabo Equatorial Guinea754,834
- 711 Xingtai China754,483
- 712 Kalaburagi India753,963
- 713 Puyang China753,625
In Bangladesh, 2025
- 409 Sylhet1,242,548
- 475 Khulna1,074,134
- 488 Kutubdia1,053,339
- 560 Chandanaish928,788
- 709 Rajshahi755,347
- 740 Louhajang725,057
- 802 Mymensingh677,433
- 823 Bogura661,378
- 842 Rangpur641,327
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 Rajshahi 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 Rajshahi 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