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Kahramanmaraş, 
Türkiye
565,732 people lived in Kahramanmaraş in 2025. It is the 970th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 18th largest in Türkiye.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Kahramanmaraş 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 Kahramanmaraş grew
For every 10 people in Kahramanmaraş in 1975, there were 30.5 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 595,130 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: 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
Kahramanmaraş through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kahramanmaraş 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 Kahramanmaraş; 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, Kahramanmaraş covered 62 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 13 km² of it. That is 24 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.8 times its size, and its people are 3 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 Kahramanmaraş, which is 565,732 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 Kahramanmaraş's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 966 Zaporizhzhia Ukraine566,844
- 967 Kenitra Morocco566,802
- 968 Mathura India566,188
- 969 Mỹ Tho Vietnam565,906
- 970 Kahramanmaraş565,732
- 971 Baguio Philippines565,522
- 972 Ondo Nigeria564,330
- 973 Gothenburg Sweden562,945
- 974 Shengze China562,800
In Türkiye, 2025
- 825 Diyarbakir660,826
- 918 Samsun594,089
- 919 Adana593,872
- 922 Van590,314
- 970 Kahramanmaraş565,732
- 977 Denizli561,327
- 1047 Hatay530,262
- 1092 Malatya506,854
- 1217 Batman456,902
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Kahramanmaraş 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 Kahramanmaraş 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