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Denizli, 
Türkiye
561,327 people lived in Denizli in 2025. It is the 977th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 19th 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 Denizli'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 Denizli grew
Count 10 people in Denizli in 1975 and the same count gives 34.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 573,045 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1985 and 1990.
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
Denizli through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Denizli 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 Denizli; 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, Denizli covered 91 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 19 km² of it. That is 34 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 6 by 6 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.3 times its size, and its people are 3.5 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 1,000 people in Türkiye in 2025, 6 lived in Denizli, which is 561,327 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 Denizli's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 973 Gothenburg Sweden562,945
- 974 Shengze China562,800
- 975 Sultanpur India562,032
- 976 Al Minya Egypt561,945
- 977 Denizli561,327
- 978 Otsu Japan559,798
- 979 Qarshi Uzbekistan559,475
- 980 Chhapra India559,249
- 981 Davanagere India559,117
In Türkiye, 2025
- 918 Samsun594,089
- 919 Adana593,872
- 922 Van590,314
- 970 Kahramanmaraş565,732
- 977 Denizli561,327
- 1047 Hatay530,262
- 1092 Malatya506,854
- 1217 Batman456,902
- 1369 Elazığ411,268
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 Denizli 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 Denizli 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