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Kharameh, 
Iran
983,056 people lived in Kharameh in 2025. It is the 523rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 8th largest in Iran.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Kharameh governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Kharameh grew
Where Kharameh had 10 people in 1975, it had 54.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.1 million people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes a million people between 2025 and 2030.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Kharameh through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kharameh 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 Kharameh; 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, Kharameh covered 24 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 1.7 km² of it. That is 2 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 1 by 1 metres. Since 2005, its built-up land has grown by 70%, and its people have grown by 53%.
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 100 people in Iran in 2025, 1 lived in Kharameh, which is 983,056 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Iran, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Kharameh's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 519 Gaya India991,081
- 520 Shunqing China990,466
- 521 Porto Portugal990,433
- 522 Linyi China987,615
- 523 Kharameh983,056
- 524 Edmonton Canada981,522
- 525 Jambi Indonesia980,534
- 526 Tainan Taiwan979,987
- 527 Zhuzhou China979,244
In Iran, 2025
- 272 Isfahan1,844,409
- 297 Ahwaz1,639,321
- 393 Tabriz1,309,004
- 491 Sarvestan1,039,168
- 523 Kharameh983,056
- 566 Shiraz914,496
- 610 Kavar857,280
- 629 Kermanshah837,230
- 644 Qom815,416
How to read this: the figure in front of a name is where that city stands among the 12,138 cities the UN counted in 2025, and each bar is its people, on one scale per list. Numbers are missing where a city has fewer than 300,000 people and so has no page of its own.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Kharameh 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 Kharameh 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