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Shaistaganj, 
Bangladesh
300,465 people lived in Shaistaganj in 2025. It is the 1909th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 39th largest in Bangladesh.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Shaistaganj 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 Shaistaganj grew
Count 10 people in Shaistaganj in 1995 and the same count gives 53 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 459,590 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020. The UN first counts it as a city in 1995, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Shaistaganj through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Shaistaganj 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 Shaistaganj; 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, Shaistaganj covered 80 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.8 km² of it. That is 19 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown to 5.8 times its size, and its people are 3.8 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, 2 lived in Shaistaganj, which is 300,465 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 Shaistaganj; 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
- 1905 Siwan India300,919
- 1906 Khanewal Pakistan300,722
- 1907 Ado Nigeria300,622
- 1908 Singaraja Indonesia300,490
- 1909 Shaistaganj300,465
- 1910 Sirsa India300,414
- 1911 Szczecin Poland300,314
- 1912 Biskra Algeria300,313
- 1913 Orizaba Mexico300,041
In Bangladesh, 2025
- 1786 Shariatpur321,804
- 1809 Nazirhat317,240
- 1860 Sandwip309,439
- 1880 Golapganj306,017
- 1909 Shaistaganj300,465
- 1948 Moulvibazar297,098
- 2141 Chengarchar271,704
- 2143 Thakurgaon271,454
- 2157 Saghatta270,148
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 Shaistaganj are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1995 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 Shaistaganj 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