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Diyarbakir, 
Türkiye
660,826 people lived in Diyarbakir in 2025. It is the 825th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 14th largest in Türkiye.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Diyarbakir 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 Diyarbakir grew
Count 10 people in Diyarbakir in 1975 and the same count gives 51 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 669,474 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: 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
Diyarbakir through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Diyarbakir 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 Diyarbakir; 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, Diyarbakir covered 77 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 13 km² of it. That is 20 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.9 times its size, and its people are 5.1 times as many.
How to read this: each pale square is the city's whole area, the strong square inside it the part that is built on; one scale for all three, so a bigger square is more land. Hatched is the UN's projection.
Of every 100 people in Türkiye
Its share of Türkiye
Of every 1,000 people in Türkiye in 2025, 8 lived in Diyarbakir, which is 660,826 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Türkiye; the coloured squares live in Diyarbakir. 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
- 821 Kannur India662,128
- 822 Jhansi India662,059
- 823 Bogura Bangladesh661,378
- 824 Gqeberha South Africa661,220
- 825 Diyarbakir660,826
- 826 Al-Ubayyid Sudan659,964
- 827 Siliguri India658,183
- 828 Bacolod Philippines655,836
- 829 Volgograd Russia655,020
In Türkiye, 2025
- 694 Eskisehir766,333
- 715 Mersin750,396
- 723 Şanlıurfa739,807
- 729 Kocaeli737,380
- 825 Diyarbakir660,826
- 918 Samsun594,089
- 919 Adana593,872
- 922 Van590,314
- 970 Kahramanmaraş565,732
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 Diyarbakir 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 Diyarbakir 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