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Bandar-e Torkaman — UN urban centre

84,161

Bandar-e Torkaman: 84,161 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #7,408 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6174; 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: 36.899, 54.0724. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
200053,135Estimate
200559,830Estimate
201068,563Estimate
201575,843Estimate
202082,299Estimate
202584,161Estimate
203084,543Projection
203584,805Projection
204084,766Projection
204584,759Projection
205084,253Projection

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