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Chuadanga — UN urban centre

157,852

Chuadanga: 157,852 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,837 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4174; 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: 23.6429, 88.8452. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975159,135Estimate
1980147,070Estimate
1985141,030Estimate
1990143,520Estimate
1995150,758Estimate
2000160,503Estimate
2005164,944Estimate
2010163,649Estimate
2015159,542Estimate
2020156,441Estimate
2025157,852Estimate
2030160,157Projection
2035162,758Projection
2040162,531Projection
2045160,500Projection
2050159,389Projection

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