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Pirojpur — UN urban centre

101,681

Pirojpur: 101,681 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #6,076 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6505; 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: 22.5783, 89.9723. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197592,293Estimate
1980104,008Estimate
1985115,751Estimate
1990123,445Estimate
1995136,664Estimate
2000144,170Estimate
2005148,783Estimate
2010142,843Estimate
2015132,658Estimate
2020102,817Estimate
2025101,681Estimate
2030101,122Projection
2035100,159Projection
204098,376Projection
204596,740Projection
205094,752Projection

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