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Shahrasti, 
Bangladesh
169,908 people lived in Shahrasti in 2025. It is the 3560th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 80th largest in Bangladesh.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Shahrasti 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 Shahrasti grew
Count 10 people in Shahrasti in 1990 and the same count gives 28.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 350,889 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2030 and 2035. The UN first counts it as a city in 1990, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Shahrasti through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Shahrasti in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Bangladesh · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Shahrasti is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Bangladesh in 2025, 233 in all, led by Dhaka, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Shahrasti covered 77 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.2 km² of it. That is 13 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2020, its built-up land has grown by 29%, and its people have grown by 14%.
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 Shahrasti, which is 169,908 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 Shahrasti's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 3531 Zhanaozen Kazakhstan171,827
- 3538 Beanibazar171,417
- 3543 Amparihimahitsy Madagascar170,981
- 3547 Nampo North Korea170,683
- 3560 Shahrasti169,908
- 3568 Kefole Ethiopia169,474
- 3575 Aleta Wendo Ethiopia169,004
- 3588 Faya-Largeau Chad168,302
- 3593 Mukubu Democratic Republic of the Congo168,033
In Bangladesh, 2025
- 3291 Afamolla183,242
- 3383 Bahubal178,981
- 3423 Madhabpur176,480
- 3538 Beanibazar171,417
- 3560 Shahrasti169,908
- 3611 Ulipur167,347
- 3667 Akhaura165,093
- 3712 Delduar163,064
- 3740 Fenchuganj161,718
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 Shahrasti are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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 Shahrasti 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