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Koyra — UN urban centre

116,991

Koyra: 116,991 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #5,250 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5908; 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: 22.358, 89.2232. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
200057,865Estimate
200563,994Estimate
201068,254Estimate
2015109,241Estimate
2020113,513Estimate
2025116,991Estimate
2030124,411Projection
2035125,286Projection
2040125,133Projection
2045124,556Projection
2050122,028Projection

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