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Swarupkathi — UN urban centre

120,345

Swarupkathi: 120,345 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #5,106 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6537; 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: 22.7533, 90.0941. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
198057,909Estimate
198567,187Estimate
199079,093Estimate
199585,409Estimate
200092,598Estimate
200598,202Estimate
201098,269Estimate
201590,289Estimate
2020119,334Estimate
2025120,345Estimate
2030119,625Projection
2035118,333Projection
2040112,428Projection
2045110,348Projection
2050106,412Projection

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