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Tabriz, 
Iran
1,309,004 people lived in Tabriz in 2025. It is the 393rd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 6th 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 Tabriz's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Tabriz grew
Where Tabriz had 10 people in 1975, it had 33.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.4 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2000 and 2005.
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
Tabriz through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Tabriz 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). Tabriz 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, Tabriz covered 166 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 42 km² of it. That is 32 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.5 times its size, and its people are 3.4 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 100 people in Iran in 2025, 1 lived in Tabriz, which is 1.3 million people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Iran, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Tabriz's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 389 Managua Nicaragua1,315,865
- 390 Yichang China1,314,779
- 391 Asunción Paraguay1,314,663
- 392 Guwahati India1,314,019
- 393 Tabriz1,309,004
- 394 Kharkiv Ukraine1,308,892
- 395 Amritsar India1,303,330
- 396 Klipgat South Africa1,300,816
- 397 San Pedro Sula Honduras1,299,457
In Iran, 2025
- 75 Mashhad5,398,248
- 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
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 Tabriz 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 Tabriz 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