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Jhenaidah — UN urban centre

226,534

Jhenaidah: 226,534 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,597 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4989; 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: 23.5435, 89.1727. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975213,867Estimate
1980215,009Estimate
1985211,017Estimate
1990201,349Estimate
1995219,701Estimate
2000237,138Estimate
2005240,976Estimate
2010240,853Estimate
2015234,244Estimate
2020224,423Estimate
2025226,534Estimate
2030229,931Projection
2035231,486Projection
2040232,617Projection
2045231,863Projection
2050230,267Projection

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