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Savar, 
Bangladesh
3,557,381 people lived in Savar in 2025. It is the 133rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 3rd 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 Savar grew
For every 10 people in Savar in 1975, there were 158.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 6.0 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes five million people between 2035 and 2040.
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
Savar through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Savar 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 Savar; 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, Savar covered 592 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 77 km² of it. That is 22 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 23.4 times its size, and its people are 15.9 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 100 people in Bangladesh in 2025, 2 lived in Savar, which is 3.6 million people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Bangladesh; the coloured squares live in Savar. 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
- 129 Ankara Türkiye3,612,251
- 130 Kasaï-Oriental Democratic Republic of the Congo3,605,738
- 131 Karaj Iran3,598,661
- 132 Berlin Germany3,560,908
- 133 Savar3,557,381
- 134 Peshawar Pakistan3,554,423
- 135 Lusaka Zambia3,510,723
- 136 Indore India3,476,423
- 137 Jinan China3,472,980
In Bangladesh, 2025
- 2 Dhaka36,585,479
- 83 Chattogram4,983,553
- 133 Savar3,557,381
- 169 Brahmanbaria2,914,727
- 387 Kishoreganj1,324,096
- 409 Sylhet1,242,548
- 475 Khulna1,074,134
- 488 Kutubdia1,053,339
- 560 Chandanaish928,788
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 Savar 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 Savar 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