Iran Populated Places from OpenStreetMap Export

OpenStreetMap features for populated places in Iran, including cities, towns, villages, hamlets, and isolated dwellings. The dataset is exported by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and includes attributes such as name, population, and land use. It was last updated on 2026-03-17.

Use Cases

• Mapping settlement hierarchies based on the 'place' attribute (city, town, village, hamlet, isolated_dwelling)
• Estimating regional population distribution based on the 'population' attribute
• Analyzing residential land use patterns based on the 'landuse' attribute
• Cross-referencing place names in English and Persian based on the 'name:en' and 'name:fa' attributes

Strengths

• Includes multiple settlement types (city, town, village, hamlet, isolated_dwelling) as defined by OpenStreetMap tags
• Provides multilingual place names ('name:en' and 'name:fa')
• Data is sourced from the collaborative OpenStreetMap project

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Data may reflect geographic or source bias inherent to OpenStreetMap

Provenance

Source

Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)

Collection Method

Export of OpenStreetMap data matching specific tags for place and landuse.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-17 12:54:08.571998

Geography

Iran