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Kushtia — UN urban centre

410,514

Kushtia: 410,514 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,374 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4484; 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: 23.9032, 89.1246. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975300,790Estimate
1980306,268Estimate
1985325,489Estimate
1990327,042Estimate
1995357,897Estimate
2000385,981Estimate
2005404,884Estimate
2010411,777Estimate
2015413,754Estimate
2020409,392Estimate
2025410,514Estimate
2030462,961Projection
2035467,697Projection
2040467,102Projection
2045465,531Projection
2050460,772Projection

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