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Tangail, 
Bangladesh
444,219 people lived in Tangail in 2025. It is the 1251st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 22nd largest in Bangladesh.
Like every city on this site, Tangail is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Tangail grew
Count 10 people in Tangail in 1975 and the same count gives 18.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 870,095 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1975 and 1980.
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
Tangail through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Tangail in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Bangladesh · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Tangail 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, Tangail covered 51 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 5.6 km² of it. That is 13 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 4.7 times its size, and its people have grown by 52%.
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 1,000 people in Bangladesh in 2025, 3 lived in Tangail, which is 444,219 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Bangladesh; the coloured squares live in Tangail. 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
- 1247 Pematang Siantar Indonesia446,269
- 1248 Ogbomosho Nigeria445,090
- 1249 Chengde China444,971
- 1250 Hawassa Ethiopia444,909
- 1251 Tangail444,219
- 1252 Chaoyang China443,864
- 1253 Bologna Italy443,849
- 1254 Abéché Chad443,793
- 1255 Thanjavur India443,736
In Bangladesh, 2025
- 1182 Cox's Bazar470,100
- 1211 Elenga459,645
- 1215 Barishal457,323
- 1245 Sirajganj446,632
- 1251 Tangail444,219
- 1283 Pabna436,119
- 1301 Chandpur430,144
- 1372 Belkuchi410,861
- 1374 Kushtia410,514
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 Tangail 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 Tangail 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