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İskenderun, 
Türkiye
375,056 people lived in İskenderun in 2025. It is the 1518th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 25th largest in Türkiye.
Like every city on this site, İskenderun is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries
People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How İskenderun grew
For every 10 people in İskenderun in 1975, there were 48 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 409,861 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2010 and 2015.
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
İskenderun through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in İskenderun 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). İskenderun 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, İskenderun covered 70 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 10 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 3.7 times its size, and its people are 4.8 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in Türkiye
Its share of Türkiye
Of every 1,000 people in Türkiye in 2025, 4 lived in İskenderun, which is 375,056 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Türkiye; the coloured squares live in İskenderun. 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
- 1514 Viluppuram India375,616
- 1515 Tawau Malaysia375,573
- 1516 Mariupol Ukraine375,504
- 1517 Liège Belgium375,138
- 1518 İskenderun375,056
- 1519 Haimen China374,644
- 1520 Hama Syria374,643
- 1521 Numazu Japan374,507
- 1522 Hrodna Belarus374,464
In Türkiye, 2025
- 1092 Malatya506,854
- 1217 Batman456,902
- 1369 Elazığ411,268
- 1417 Manisa399,014
- 1518 İskenderun375,056
- 1551 Sivas368,209
- 1640 Sakarya348,302
- 1686 Çerkezköy338,995
- 1753 Balıkesir328,080
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 İskenderun 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 İskenderun 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