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Thakurgaon, 
Bangladesh
271,454 people lived in Thakurgaon in 2025. It is the 2143rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 42nd 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 Thakurgaon grew
Count 10 people in Thakurgaon in 1975 and the same count gives 11.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 322,273 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Thakurgaon through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Thakurgaon in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Bangladesh · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Thakurgaon 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, Thakurgaon covered 28 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.6 km² of it. That is 13 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 3.3 times its size, and its people have grown by 20%.
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 Thakurgaon, which is 271,454 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Bangladesh; the coloured squares live in Thakurgaon. 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
- 2138 Guna India271,913
- 2139 Gunung Lingkas Indonesia271,868
- 2140 Zacatecas Mexico271,829
- 2141 Chengarchar271,704
- 2143 Thakurgaon271,454
- 2148 Kimberley South Africa271,078
- 2149 Jind India270,881
- 2150 Hassan India270,626
- 2151 Eket Nigeria270,603
In Bangladesh, 2025
- 1880 Golapganj306,017
- 1909 Shaistaganj300,465
- 1948 Moulvibazar297,098
- 2141 Chengarchar271,704
- 2143 Thakurgaon271,454
- 2157 Saghatta270,148
- 2312 Sunamganj251,822
- 2321 Rangunia250,564
- 2362 Sreemangal247,298
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 Thakurgaon 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 Thakurgaon 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