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Qaraziadin — UN urban centre

264,943

Qaraziadin: 264,943 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #2,201 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 452; 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: 38.8904, 45.0249. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197576,866Estimate
198088,653Estimate
1985110,997Estimate
1990131,716Estimate
1995154,969Estimate
2000177,824Estimate
2005198,706Estimate
2010221,381Estimate
2015240,157Estimate
2020254,858Estimate
2025264,943Estimate
2030270,565Projection
2035274,065Projection
2040276,590Projection
2045278,665Projection
2050279,099Projection

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