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Thakurgaon — UN urban centre

271,454

Thakurgaon: 271,454 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,143 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 319; territory: Bangladesh (BGD). UN source workbook.

Method: Degree of Urbanisation (contiguous 1 km2 cells, density 1,500+ people/km2, total 50,000+). This is a source-defined urban centre, not a municipality or province. No association with a separate administrative entity is inferred from proximity or name.

Source centroid: 26.0324, 88.4633. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975237,707Estimate
1980226,774Estimate
1985212,084Estimate
1990199,043Estimate
1995227,378Estimate
2000258,181Estimate
2005271,876Estimate
2010276,757Estimate
2015276,077Estimate
2020255,825Estimate
2025271,454Estimate
2030287,316Projection
2035305,750Projection
2040312,212Projection
2045317,049Projection
2050322,273Projection

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