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Pishva, 
Iran
388,154 people lived in Pishva in 2025. It is the 1467th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 21st 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 Pishva grew
Where Pishva had 10 people in 1975, it had 54.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 428,450 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005.
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
Pishva through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Pishva 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). Pishva 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, Pishva covered 28 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 3.9 km² of it. That is 10 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 3 by 3 metres. Since 2000, its built-up land has grown to 2.2 times its size, and its people have grown by 79%.
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 Pishva, which is 388,154 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 Pishva's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1463 Tamkuhi Raj India389,533
- 1464 Iseyin Nigeria389,526
- 1465 Phuket Thailand389,376
- 1466 Birimbal al Quadima Egypt389,333
- 1467 Pishva388,154
- 1468 Ulyanovsk Russia387,698
- 1469 Al Roda Egypt387,432
- 1470 Ganja Azerbaijan386,822
- 1471 Malemba-Nkulu Democratic Republic of the Congo386,790
In Iran, 2025
- 1109 Hamedan498,337
- 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
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 Pishva 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 Pishva 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