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Sarvestan, 
Iran
1,039,168 people lived in Sarvestan in 2025. It is the 491st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 7th 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 Sarvestan's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Sarvestan grew
Where Sarvestan had 10 people in 1975, it had 43.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.2 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2020 and 2025.
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
Sarvestan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Sarvestan 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). Sarvestan 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, Sarvestan covered 16 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 1.5 km² of it. That is 1 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 1 by 1 metres. Since 2010, its built-up land has grown by 50%, and its people have grown by 28%.
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 100 people in Iran in 2025, 1 lived in Sarvestan, which is 1.0 million people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Iran; the coloured squares live in Sarvestan. 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
- 487 Tshikapa Democratic Republic of the Congo1,054,686
- 488 Kutubdia Bangladesh1,053,339
- 489 Tuen Mun Hong Kong1,053,083
- 490 Kottayam India1,043,314
- 491 Sarvestan1,039,168
- 492 Barharia India1,038,927
- 493 Thalassery India1,038,647
- 494 Gaza Palestine1,038,285
- 495 Mendoza Argentina1,027,849
In Iran, 2025
- 131 Karaj3,598,661
- 272 Isfahan1,844,409
- 297 Ahwaz1,639,321
- 393 Tabriz1,309,004
- 491 Sarvestan1,039,168
- 523 Kharameh983,056
- 566 Shiraz914,496
- 610 Kavar857,280
- 629 Kermanshah837,230
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 Sarvestan 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 Sarvestan 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