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Trishal, 
Bangladesh
200,492 people lived in Trishal in 2025. It is the 2986th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 65th largest in Bangladesh.
Like every city on this site, Trishal 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 Trishal grew
Count 10 people in Trishal in 1975 and the same count gives 17.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 393,536 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2030 and 2035.
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
Trishal through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Trishal in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Bangladesh · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Trishal 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, Trishal covered 68 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.5 km² of it. That is 17 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1995, its built-up land has grown to 3.5 times its size, and its people are 2.1 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, 1 lived in Trishal, which is 200,492 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 Trishal; 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
- 2975 Kropyvnytskyi Ukraine200,894
- 2981 Omoku Nigeria200,802
- 2983 Kisii Kenya200,579
- 2985 Gamharia India200,505
- 2986 Trishal200,492
- 2987 Makiivka Ukraine200,425
- 2992 Lincoln Park United States200,040
- 2996 Musangala Democratic Republic of the Congo199,847
- 3014 Tabora Tanzania198,557
In Bangladesh, 2025
- 2824 Madaripur210,635
- 2864 Kulaura208,075
- 2927 Muktagacha203,965
- 2970 Narayanpur201,100
- 2986 Trishal200,492
- 3187 Mathbarer Char188,871
- 3291 Afamolla183,242
- 3383 Bahubal178,981
- 3423 Madhabpur176,480
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 Trishal 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 Trishal 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