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Antalya, 
Türkiye
1,273,822 people lived in Antalya in 2025. It is the 402nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 6th largest in Türkiye.
Like every city on this site, Antalya is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Antalya grew
Count 10 people in Antalya in 1980 and the same count gives 246.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.3 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2010 and 2015. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: each column is one of the UN's five-yearly estimates, 1975 through 2050, and taller means more people. Where a column is hatched the year has not happened yet. The strip under the columns is the UN's own confidence in each figure, palest where it is least sure; where it is blank the city was not on the list at all.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Antalya through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Antalya 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). Antalya 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, Antalya covered 237 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 60 km² of it. That is 47 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 15.5 times its size, and its people are 24.6 times as many.
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 100 people in Türkiye in 2025, 1 lived in Antalya, which is 1.3 million people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Türkiye, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Antalya's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 398 Tembisa South Africa1,298,512
- 399 Ilorin Nigeria1,282,219
- 400 Lubango Angola1,280,986
- 401 Saharanpur India1,275,279
- 402 Antalya1,273,822
- 403 Al-Najaf Iraq1,273,450
- 404 São Luís Brazil1,264,379
- 405 Herat Afghanistan1,259,425
- 406 Sendai Japan1,256,440
In Türkiye, 2025
- 129 Ankara3,612,251
- 188 Izmir2,650,237
- 216 Bursa2,281,622
- 303 Gaziantep1,613,357
- 402 Antalya1,273,822
- 448 Sincan1,149,921
- 542 Konya959,484
- 585 Kayseri882,238
- 694 Eskisehir766,333
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 Antalya are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Antalya 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