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Bursa, 
Türkiye
2,281,622 people lived in Bursa in 2025. It is the 216th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 4th largest in Türkiye.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Bursa's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Bursa grew
For every 10 people in Bursa in 1975, there were 62.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 2.5 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Bursa through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Bursa 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). Bursa 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, Bursa covered 215 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 50 km² of it. That is 22 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 5.1 times its size, and its people are 6.3 times as many.
How to read this: the outer pale square stands for all the land the city covers, and the solid square inside it for the part with buildings, roads and the like on it. All three squares share a scale, so you can compare them by eye. A hatched one is a year the UN has projected.
Of every 100 people in Türkiye
Its share of Türkiye
Of every 100 people in Türkiye in 2025, 3 lived in Bursa, which is 2.3 million people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Türkiye; the coloured squares live in Bursa. 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
- 212 Dammam Saudi Arabia2,335,647
- 213 Daegu South Korea2,334,446
- 214 Goiânia Brazil2,320,596
- 215 Tangshan China2,286,763
- 216 Bursa2,281,622
- 217 Manaus Brazil2,277,352
- 218 Lanzhou China2,272,104
- 219 Vadodara India2,270,298
- 220 Taichung Taiwan2,268,685
In Türkiye, 2025
- 18 Istanbul15,014,763
- 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
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Bursa 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 Bursa 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