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Batman, 
Türkiye
456,902 people lived in Batman in 2025. It is the 1217th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 22nd largest in Türkiye.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Batman governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Batman grew
Count 10 people in Batman in 1980 and the same count gives 67.2 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 461,507 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005. 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: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Batman through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Batman in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Türkiye · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 177 cities in Türkiye in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Istanbul. The ringed dot in colour is Batman; 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, Batman covered 41 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 9.1 km² of it. That is 20 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 2.8 times its size, and its people are 6.7 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 1,000 people in Türkiye in 2025, 5 lived in Batman, which is 456,902 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Türkiye; the coloured squares live in Batman. 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
- 1213 Jhelum Pakistan457,793
- 1214 Al Abbasa al Sharqiya Egypt457,678
- 1215 Barishal Bangladesh457,323
- 1216 Jiaozhou China457,288
- 1217 Batman456,902
- 1218 Saharsa India456,879
- 1219 Irapuato Mexico456,628
- 1220 Cheboksary Russia456,304
- 1221 Raiganj India456,239
In Türkiye, 2025
- 970 Kahramanmaraş565,732
- 977 Denizli561,327
- 1047 Hatay530,262
- 1092 Malatya506,854
- 1217 Batman456,902
- 1369 Elazığ411,268
- 1417 Manisa399,014
- 1518 İskenderun375,056
- 1551 Sivas368,209
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 Batman 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 Batman 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