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Hatay, 
Türkiye
530,262 people lived in Hatay in 2025. It is the 1047th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 20th largest in Türkiye.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Hatay governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Hatay grew
Count 10 people in Hatay in 1975 and the same count gives 71.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 589,320 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: 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
Hatay through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Hatay 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 Hatay; 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, Hatay covered 77 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 14 km² of it. That is 27 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 6.2 times its size, and its people are 7.1 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, 6 lived in Hatay, which is 530,262 people.
How to read this: shrink Türkiye to 1,000 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Hatay; the grey ones are everybody else, in other cities, in towns and out in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1043 Zahedan Iran531,482
- 1044 Bozhou China531,429
- 1045 'Adan Yemen530,573
- 1046 Leicester United Kingdom530,264
- 1047 Hatay530,262
- 1048 Homel Belarus529,882
- 1049 Feira de Santana Brazil529,185
- 1050 Beibei China527,806
- 1051 Langfang China527,161
In Türkiye, 2025
- 919 Adana593,872
- 922 Van590,314
- 970 Kahramanmaraş565,732
- 977 Denizli561,327
- 1047 Hatay530,262
- 1092 Malatya506,854
- 1217 Batman456,902
- 1369 Elazığ411,268
- 1417 Manisa399,014
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 Hatay 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 Hatay 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