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Sherpur, 
Bangladesh
341,630 people lived in Sherpur in 2025. It is the 1674th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 32nd 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 Sherpur grew
Where Sherpur had 10 people in 1975, it had 13.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 399,235 people in 2050.
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
Sherpur through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Sherpur 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). Sherpur 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, Sherpur covered 26 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.4 km² of it. That is 10 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.3 times its size, and its people have grown by 33%.
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 Sherpur, which is 341,630 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 Sherpur; 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
- 1670 Yanshi District China342,565
- 1671 Dujiangyan China342,467
- 1672 Tahoua Niger342,253
- 1673 Qingzhou China342,044
- 1674 Sherpur341,630
- 1675 Neijiang China341,371
- 1676 Iligan Philippines341,172
- 1677 Kigoma Tanzania340,483
- 1678 Takamatsu Japan340,478
In Bangladesh, 2025
- 1432 Dinajpur396,235
- 1512 Lalpur375,833
- 1607 Nandail354,872
- 1659 Jamalpur345,132
- 1674 Sherpur341,630
- 1688 Naogaon338,623
- 1744 Faridpur329,383
- 1786 Shariatpur321,804
- 1809 Nazirhat317,240
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Sherpur 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 Sherpur 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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