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Rangunia, 
Bangladesh
250,564 people lived in Rangunia in 2025. It is the 2321st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 46th largest in Bangladesh.
Like every city on this site, Rangunia 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 Rangunia grew
Count 10 people in Rangunia in 1975 and the same count gives 31.6 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 340,876 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025.
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
Rangunia through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Rangunia 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 Rangunia; 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, Rangunia covered 90 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.0 km² of it. That is 20 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1985, its built-up land has grown to 5 times its size, and its people are 2 times as many.
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, 1 lived in Rangunia, which is 250,564 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 Rangunia's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2315 Golmud China251,353
- 2316 Shehong China251,287
- 2318 Jiangyou China251,202
- 2320 Araria India251,001
- 2321 Rangunia250,564
- 2322 Kyzylorda Kazakhstan250,557
- 2324 La Romana Dominican Republic250,479
- 2325 Diyarb Nigm Egypt250,476
- 2327 Bukhara Uzbekistan250,377
In Bangladesh, 2025
- 2141 Chengarchar271,704
- 2143 Thakurgaon271,454
- 2157 Saghatta270,148
- 2312 Sunamganj251,822
- 2321 Rangunia250,564
- 2362 Sreemangal247,298
- 2373 Saidpur245,655
- 2469 Manikganj237,163
- 2566 Mollar Char228,869
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Rangunia 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 Rangunia 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