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Shariatpur — UN urban centre

321,804

Shariatpur: 321,804 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,786 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6601; 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: 23.2919, 90.3706. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1990118,732Estimate
1995144,684Estimate
2000171,412Estimate
2005182,179Estimate
2010193,912Estimate
2015193,504Estimate
2020269,063Estimate
2025321,804Estimate
2030368,933Projection
2035425,122Projection
2040503,859Projection
2045557,426Projection
2050641,744Projection

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