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Qarchak, 
Iran
369,782 people lived in Qarchak in 2025. It is the 1544th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 24th 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 Qarchak grew
For every 10 people in Qarchak in 1975, there were 46 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 417,750 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: 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
Qarchak through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Qarchak 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). Qarchak 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, Qarchak covered 53 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 13 km² of it. That is 35 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 7.2 times its size, and its people are 4.6 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 Qarchak, which is 369,782 people.
How to read this: shrink Iran to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Qarchak; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1540 Muridke Pakistan370,563
- 1541 Dewas India370,472
- 1542 Al-Manshah Egypt370,283
- 1543 Daura Nigeria369,916
- 1544 Qarchak369,782
- 1545 Xuancheng China369,529
- 1546 Brest Belarus369,414
- 1547 Campina Grande Brazil369,184
- 1548 Dehri India368,750
In Iran, 2025
- 1359 Sareyn413,772
- 1467 Pishva388,154
- 1492 Bandar Abbas381,008
- 1539 Zanjan370,993
- 1544 Qarchak369,782
- 1565 Arak366,442
- 1599 Qazvin355,865
- 1742 Narmashir329,526
- 1764 Sanandaj325,425
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 Qarchak 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 Qarchak 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