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Bandar Abbas, 
Iran
381,008 people lived in Bandar Abbas in 2025. It is the 1492nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 22nd largest in Iran.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Bandar Abbas's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Bandar Abbas grew
Count 10 people in Bandar Abbas in 1975 and the same count gives 60 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 458,638 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Bandar Abbas through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bandar Abbas in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Iran · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 210 cities in Iran in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Tehran. The ringed dot in colour is Bandar Abbas; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Bandar Abbas covered 74 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 17 km² of it. That is 44 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.6 times its size, and its people are 6 times as many.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in Iran
Its share of Iran
Of every 1,000 people in Iran in 2025, 4 lived in Bandar Abbas, which is 381,008 people.
How to read this: shrink Iran to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Bandar Abbas; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1488 Guangyuan China381,738
- 1489 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain381,670
- 1490 Changji/Sanji China381,391
- 1491 Kas Sudan381,286
- 1492 Bandar Abbas381,008
- 1493 Mahilioŭ Belarus380,951
- 1494 Dongyang China380,793
- 1495 Mbale City Uganda380,565
- 1496 KUNDULUN Nigeria380,118
In Iran, 2025
- 1141 Yazd485,381
- 1274 Ardabil437,757
- 1359 Sareyn413,772
- 1467 Pishva388,154
- 1492 Bandar Abbas381,008
- 1539 Zanjan370,993
- 1544 Qarchak369,782
- 1565 Arak366,442
- 1599 Qazvin355,865
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Bandar Abbas are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1975 to 2025, then projection to 2050. Projected years are drawn hatched, and the UN publishes no range of uncertainty for a city. What a city means here, how the UN measures one, and why that number can differ from the one Bandar Abbas publishes about itself: how the figures here are put together.
Sources: UN WUP 2025 · Natural Earth · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries