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Manikganj — UN urban centre

237,163

Manikganj: 237,163 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,469 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6120; 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: 23.8534, 90.0001. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197597,826Estimate
198095,205Estimate
198596,359Estimate
199095,295Estimate
1995109,975Estimate
2000125,977Estimate
2005133,585Estimate
2010135,870Estimate
2015138,058Estimate
2020144,654Estimate
2025237,163Estimate
2030361,719Projection
2035408,170Projection
2040471,077Projection
2045589,422Projection
2050663,973Projection

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