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Jhikargacha — UN urban centre

52,584

Jhikargacha: 52,584 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #11,695 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5295; 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: 23.1023, 89.0991. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975102,426Estimate
198079,487Estimate
198562,354Estimate
199052,122Estimate
199560,057Estimate
200062,348Estimate
200567,422Estimate
201064,364Estimate
201560,521Estimate
202052,113Estimate
202552,584Estimate
203054,891Projection
203555,268Projection
204055,193Projection
204554,986Projection
205054,579Projection

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