Mashhad — UN urban centre
Mashhad: 5,398,248 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #75 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7072; 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: 36.3417, 59.4884. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 1,322,467 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,705,166 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 2,346,990 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 2,928,611 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 3,147,396 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 3,470,089 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 3,909,114 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 4,394,362 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 4,800,801 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 5,199,412 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 5,398,248 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 5,493,709 | Projection |
| 2035 | 5,561,925 | Projection |
| 2040 | 5,621,037 | Projection |
| 2045 | 5,660,249 | Projection |
| 2050 | 5,669,798 | Projection |
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