Shariatpur, Bangladesh

For every 10 people in Shariatpur in 1990, there were 27.1 in 2025.

On the UN's projection it will have 641,744 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020. 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.

How to read this: Shariatpur 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.

In 2025, Shariatpur covered 124 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 4.2 km² of it. That is 13 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown to 4.2 times its size, and its people have grown by 88%.

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 1,000 people in Bangladesh in 2025, 2 lived in Shariatpur, which is 321,804 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 Shariatpur; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.

In the world, 2025

1. 1782 Kirov Russia322,377
2. 1783 Hull United Kingdom322,100
3. 1784 Mulongo Democratic Republic of the Congo321,881
4. 1785 Nawabshah Pakistan321,838
5. 1786 Shariatpur321,804
6. 1787 Timofeevka Russia321,680
7. 1788 Katni India321,522
8. 1789 Bafoussam Cameroon321,489
9. 1790 Chuzhou China321,424

In Bangladesh, 2025

1. 1659 Jamalpur345,132
2. 1674 Sherpur341,630
3. 1688 Naogaon338,623
4. 1744 Faridpur329,383
5. 1786 Shariatpur321,804
6. 1809 Nazirhat317,240
7. 1860 Sandwip309,439
8. 1880 Golapganj306,017
9. 1909 Shaistaganj300,465

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.

Bangladesh · All the world's cities

The figures for Shariatpur 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 Shariatpur 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 →

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