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Kavar, 
Iran
857,280 people lived in Kavar in 2025. It is the 610th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 10th largest in Iran.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Kavar grew
Where Kavar had 10 people in 1975, it had 55.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 964,659 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1985 and 1990.
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
Kavar through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kavar in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Iran · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Kavar is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Iran in 2025, 210 in all, led by Tehran, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Kavar covered 25 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 2.4 km² of it. That is 3 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 2 by 2 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown to 2.2 times its size, and its people are 2 times as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in Iran
Its share of Iran
Of every 1,000 people in Iran in 2025, 9 lived in Kavar, which is 857,280 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Iran; the coloured squares live in Kavar. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 606 Guntur India862,068
- 607 Valparaíso Chile861,145
- 608 Aracaju Brazil859,845
- 609 Xinxiang China858,975
- 610 Kavar857,280
- 611 Aguascalientes Mexico856,387
- 612 Jinzhou China854,575
- 613 Abbottabad Pakistan851,819
- 614 Haizhou District China850,645
In Iran, 2025
- 393 Tabriz1,309,004
- 491 Sarvestan1,039,168
- 523 Kharameh983,056
- 566 Shiraz914,496
- 610 Kavar857,280
- 629 Kermanshah837,230
- 644 Qom815,416
- 771 Urmia698,050
- 948 Rasht579,481
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 Kavar 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 Kavar 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