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Elazığ, 
Türkiye
411,268 people lived in Elazığ in 2025. It is the 1369th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 23rd largest in Türkiye.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Elazığ grew
Where Elazığ had 10 people in 1975, it had 32.7 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 413,220 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005.
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
Elazığ through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Elazığ 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). Elazığ 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, Elazığ covered 44 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 9.3 km² of it. That is 23 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.2 times its size, and its people are 3.3 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 1,000 people in Türkiye in 2025, 5 lived in Elazığ, which is 411,268 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Türkiye; the coloured squares live in Elazığ. 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
- 1365 Kaolack Senegal412,347
- 1366 Jixi China412,341
- 1367 Hamhung North Korea412,277
- 1368 Americana Brazil412,133
- 1369 Elazığ411,268
- 1370 Tashikeruike China411,163
- 1371 Bharuch India411,095
- 1372 Belkuchi Bangladesh410,861
- 1373 Albuquerque United States410,810
In Türkiye, 2025
- 977 Denizli561,327
- 1047 Hatay530,262
- 1092 Malatya506,854
- 1217 Batman456,902
- 1369 Elazığ411,268
- 1417 Manisa399,014
- 1518 İskenderun375,056
- 1551 Sivas368,209
- 1640 Sakarya348,302
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 Elazığ 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 Elazığ 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