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Narmashir, 
Iran
329,526 people lived in Narmashir in 2025. It is the 1742nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 27th largest in Iran.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Narmashir 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 Narmashir grew
Count 10 people in Narmashir in 2000 and the same count gives 43.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 463,675 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: 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
Narmashir through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Narmashir 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). Narmashir 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, Narmashir covered 43 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 1.8 km² of it. That is 5 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 2 by 2 metres. Since 2010, its built-up land has grown by 64%, and its people are 2 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in Iran
Its share of Iran
Of every 1,000 people in Iran in 2025, 4 lived in Narmashir, which is 329,526 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Iran; the coloured squares live in Narmashir. 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
- 1738 Xuanwei China330,467
- 1739 Dashiqiao China330,302
- 1740 Riwoto South Sudan330,053
- 1741 Plovdiv Bulgaria329,838
- 1742 Narmashir329,526
- 1743 Greater Noida India329,385
- 1744 Faridpur Bangladesh329,383
- 1745 Kumba Cameroon329,340
- 1746 Shiblanga Egypt328,820
In Iran, 2025
- 1539 Zanjan370,993
- 1544 Qarchak369,782
- 1565 Arak366,442
- 1599 Qazvin355,865
- 1742 Narmashir329,526
- 1764 Sanandaj325,425
- 1771 Khorramabad324,110
- 1793 Famenin320,591
- 1822 Safadasht315,054
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 Narmashir 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 Narmashir 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