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Jiroft, 
Iran
276,001 people lived in Jiroft in 2025. It is the 2103rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 34th largest in Iran.
Like every city on this site, Jiroft is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
The UN writes its name جیرفت; “Jiroft” is our romanization.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Jiroft grew
For every 10 people in Jiroft in 2000, there were 41.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 319,334 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020. The UN first counts it as a city in 2000, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Jiroft through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Jiroft in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Iran · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Iran and its 210 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Tehran). Jiroft is ringed, in colour; the other cities are grey. Neighbouring countries are outlines.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Jiroft covered 35 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.8 km² of it. That is 28 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown by 70%, and its people are 4.2 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, 3 lived in Jiroft, which is 276,001 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Iran, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Jiroft's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2096 Sarh Chad276,978
- 2097 Binangonan Philippines276,785
- 2099 Legazpi Philippines276,662
- 2101 San Pablo Philippines276,250
- 2103 Jiroft276,001
- 2104 Iași Romania275,840
- 2105 Erin Woods Canada275,476
- 2106 Glenfield New Zealand275,322
- 2107 Morbi India275,191
In Iran, 2025
- 1793 Famenin320,591
- 1822 Safadasht315,054
- 1849 Gorgan310,644
- 1882 Veys304,967
- 2103 Jiroft276,001
- 2609 MohammadAbad-e Rigan225,871
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Jiroft are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 2000 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 Jiroft 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 →
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