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Bagerhat — UN urban centre

129,963

Bagerhat: 129,963 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,698 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6339; 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: 22.6566, 89.7925. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975180,566Estimate
1980191,441Estimate
1985201,915Estimate
1990205,572Estimate
1995213,958Estimate
2000212,486Estimate
2005200,843Estimate
2010182,261Estimate
2015159,962Estimate
2020128,826Estimate
2025129,963Estimate
2030131,836Projection
2035134,817Projection
2040134,595Projection
2045134,099Projection
2050133,115Projection

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