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Rangpur, 
Bangladesh
641,327 people lived in Rangpur in 2025. It is the 842nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 14th 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 Rangpur's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Rangpur grew
Where Rangpur had 10 people in 1975, it had 18.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 750,717 people in 2050.
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
Rangpur through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Rangpur 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). Rangpur 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, Rangpur covered 69 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 10 km² of it. That is 16 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 8.3 times its size, and its people have grown by 86%.
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 Rangpur, which is 641,327 people.
How to read this: shrink Bangladesh to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Rangpur; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 838 Dhule India643,777
- 839 Toulouse France642,224
- 840 Jalpaiguri India642,158
- 841 Bauchi Nigeria642,082
- 842 Rangpur641,327
- 843 Kumamoto Japan641,185
- 844 Magelang Indonesia640,707
- 845 Cancún Mexico637,532
- 846 Jiangyin China637,502
In Bangladesh, 2025
- 709 Rajshahi755,347
- 740 Louhajang725,057
- 802 Mymensingh677,433
- 823 Bogura661,378
- 842 Rangpur641,327
- 893 Chapainawabganj607,924
- 950 Jashore578,026
- 1095 Belkuchi505,615
- 1182 Cox's Bazar470,100
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 Rangpur 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 Rangpur 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