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Adana, 
Türkiye
593,872 people lived in Adana in 2025. It is the 919th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 16th largest in Türkiye.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Adana governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Adana grew
Where Adana had 10 people in 1975, it had 12.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 614,670 people in 2050.
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
Adana through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Adana in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Türkiye · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Türkiye and its 177 cities in 2025, each a dot whose area is its number of people (the largest is Istanbul). Adana 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, Adana covered 80 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 23 km² of it. That is 38 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.7 times its size, and its people have grown by 25%.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in Türkiye
Its share of Türkiye
Of every 1,000 people in Türkiye in 2025, 7 lived in Adana, which is 593,872 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares stand for everyone in Türkiye, one square for every 1,000th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Adana's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 915 Huiyang China596,451
- 916 Ogale Nigeria595,099
- 917 Katsina Nigeria594,775
- 918 Samsun594,089
- 919 Adana593,872
- 920 Latakia Syria591,300
- 921 Yongchuan China590,694
- 922 Van590,314
- 923 Darjeeling India590,052
In Türkiye, 2025
- 723 Şanlıurfa739,807
- 729 Kocaeli737,380
- 825 Diyarbakir660,826
- 918 Samsun594,089
- 919 Adana593,872
- 922 Van590,314
- 970 Kahramanmaraş565,732
- 977 Denizli561,327
- 1047 Hatay530,262
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Adana 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 Adana 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