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Habiganj — UN urban centre

223,874

Habiganj: 223,874 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,639 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7089; 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: 24.3811, 91.4139. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197589,738Estimate
198099,733Estimate
1985108,721Estimate
1990116,023Estimate
1995137,508Estimate
2000160,626Estimate
2005177,838Estimate
2010187,398Estimate
2015198,488Estimate
2020208,333Estimate
2025223,874Estimate
2030244,042Projection
2035261,453Projection
2040273,597Projection
2045285,032Projection
2050306,477Projection

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