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Saghatta, 
Bangladesh
270,148 people lived in Saghatta in 2025. It is the 2157th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 43rd 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 Saghatta's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Saghatta grew
For every 10 people in Saghatta in 2000, there were 23 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 388,809 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2020 and 2025. The UN first counts it as a city in 2000, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Saghatta through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Saghatta 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). Saghatta 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, Saghatta covered 125 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.5 km² of it. That is 17 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown to 4.5 times its size, and its people are 2.3 times as many.
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 Saghatta, which is 270,148 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 Saghatta; 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
- 2152 Nagano Japan270,476
- 2153 Saint-Louis Senegal270,413
- 2155 Ambano Madagascar270,357
- 2156 Kapoeta South Sudan270,167
- 2157 Saghatta270,148
- 2158 Minakhan India270,142
- 2159 Muriya India269,810
- 2160 Ijebu-Igbo Nigeria269,742
- 2161 Dadu Pakistan269,400
In Bangladesh, 2025
- 1909 Shaistaganj300,465
- 1948 Moulvibazar297,098
- 2141 Chengarchar271,704
- 2143 Thakurgaon271,454
- 2157 Saghatta270,148
- 2312 Sunamganj251,822
- 2321 Rangunia250,564
- 2362 Sreemangal247,298
- 2373 Saidpur245,655
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 Saghatta are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2000 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 Saghatta 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