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Suran — UN urban centre

102,852

Suran: 102,852 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #6,014 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 7426; 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: 27.2871, 61.997. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197587,456Estimate
198090,283Estimate
198597,236Estimate
199099,657Estimate
1995101,382Estimate
2000104,659Estimate
2005108,445Estimate
2010109,527Estimate
2015106,224Estimate
202098,458Estimate
2025102,852Estimate
2030105,438Projection
2035107,099Projection
2040108,379Projection
2045109,314Projection
2050109,606Projection

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