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Hoveyzeh — UN urban centre

77,238

Hoveyzeh: 77,238 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #8,070 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4291; territory: Iran (IRN). 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: 31.4621, 48.077. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
200555,017Estimate
201063,742Estimate
201570,325Estimate
202074,267Estimate
202577,238Estimate
203080,363Projection
203583,179Projection
204084,279Projection
204585,170Projection
205085,559Projection

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