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Safadasht, 
Iran
315,054 people lived in Safadasht in 2025. It is the 1822nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 31st largest in Iran.
Like every city on this site, Safadasht is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Safadasht grew
Count 10 people in Safadasht in 1990 and the same count gives 45 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 428,911 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015. The UN first counts it as a city in 1990, when it passed 50,000 people.
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
Safadasht through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Safadasht 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). Safadasht 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, Safadasht covered 43 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.3 km² of it. That is 20 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1990, its built-up land has grown to 3.9 times its size, and its people are 4.5 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, 3 lived in Safadasht, which is 315,054 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 Safadasht; 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
- 1818 Sapele Nigeria315,614
- 1819 Pathankot India315,476
- 1820 Miluo China315,273
- 1821 Tongzhou China315,167
- 1822 Safadasht315,054
- 1823 Wanlaweyn Somalia314,824
- 1824 Nankang China314,564
- 1825 Ningde China314,107
- 1826 Tambov Russia314,026
In Iran, 2025
- 1742 Narmashir329,526
- 1764 Sanandaj325,425
- 1771 Khorramabad324,110
- 1793 Famenin320,591
- 1822 Safadasht315,054
- 1849 Gorgan310,644
- 1882 Veys304,967
- 2103 Jiroft276,001
- 2609 MohammadAbad-e Rigan225,871
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 Safadasht are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1990 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 Safadasht 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