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Kutubdia — UN urban centre

1,053,339

Kutubdia: 1,053,339 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #488 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7621; 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: 21.8017, 91.9313. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197559,020Estimate
1980109,743Estimate
1985134,080Estimate
1990180,768Estimate
1995228,158Estimate
2000464,104Estimate
2005604,245Estimate
2010719,689Estimate
2015865,731Estimate
2020927,582Estimate
20251,053,339Estimate
20301,156,631Projection
20351,287,376Projection
20401,374,325Projection
20451,431,592Projection
20501,489,070Projection

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