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Rasht, 
Iran
579,481 people lived in Rasht in 2025. It is the 948th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 14th largest in Iran.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Rasht's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Rasht grew
Count 10 people in Rasht in 1975 and the same count gives 29.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 647,638 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1980 and 1985.
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
Rasht through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Rasht 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). Rasht 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, Rasht covered 76 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 22 km² of it. That is 37 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.2 times its size, and its people are 3 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, 6 lived in Rasht, which is 579,481 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 Rasht's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 944 Ad Da'ein Sudan581,730
- 945 Nimule South Sudan581,444
- 946 Jaunpur India580,893
- 947 Tuxtla Gutiérrez Mexico580,878
- 948 Rasht579,481
- 949 Damanhur Egypt579,215
- 950 Jashore Bangladesh578,026
- 951 Beihai China577,338
- 952 Binzhou China576,823
In Iran, 2025
- 610 Kavar857,280
- 629 Kermanshah837,230
- 644 Qom815,416
- 771 Urmia698,050
- 948 Rasht579,481
- 1043 Zahedan531,482
- 1073 Kerman517,216
- 1109 Hamedan498,337
- 1141 Yazd485,381
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Rasht 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 Rasht 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