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Veys, 
Iran
304,967 people lived in Veys in 2025. It is the 1882nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 33rd 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.
The UN writes its name ویس; “Veys” is our romanization.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Veys grew
For every 10 people in Veys in 1975, there were 57.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 346,198 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015.
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
Veys through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Veys in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Iran · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 210 cities in Iran in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Tehran. The ringed dot in colour is Veys; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Veys covered 16 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 1.3 km² of it. That is 4 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 2 by 2 metres. Since 2015, its built-up land has grown by 30%, and its people have grown by 11%.
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 Veys, which is 304,967 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Iran; the coloured squares live in Veys. 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
- 1878 Bankura India306,650
- 1879 Cenxi China306,146
- 1880 Golapganj Bangladesh306,017
- 1881 Mek'elē Ethiopia305,037
- 1882 Veys304,967
- 1883 Benipur India304,786
- 1884 Gaoming China304,429
- 1885 Nukus Uzbekistan304,362
- 1886 Yarim Yemen304,301
In Iran, 2025
- 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 Veys 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 Veys 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 →
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