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Kayseri, 
Türkiye
882,238 people lived in Kayseri in 2025. It is the 585th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 9th largest in Türkiye.
The UN measures every city in the world the same way, by where the buildings are rather than where the boundary runs, so this figure and Kayseri's own can differ widely. What counts as a city here.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Kayseri grew
Where Kayseri had 10 people in 1975, it had 70.1 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 892,225 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
Kayseri through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Kayseri 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 Kayseri; 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, Kayseri covered 149 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 26 km² of it. That is 29 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.1 times its size, and its people are 7 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 100 people in Türkiye in 2025, 1 lived in Kayseri, which is 882,238 people.
How to read this: shrink Türkiye to 100 people and this is what you get. The coloured squares are the ones who would live in Kayseri; 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
- 581 Marseille France891,463
- 582 Sitamarhi India889,696
- 583 The Hague Netherlands886,444
- 584 Nampula Mozambique885,780
- 585 Kayseri882,238
- 586 Bikaner India882,222
- 587 Huadu China882,089
- 588 Ulsan South Korea881,858
- 589 Ufa Russia880,583
In Türkiye, 2025
- 303 Gaziantep1,613,357
- 402 Antalya1,273,822
- 448 Sincan1,149,921
- 542 Konya959,484
- 585 Kayseri882,238
- 694 Eskisehir766,333
- 715 Mersin750,396
- 723 Şanlıurfa739,807
- 729 Kocaeli737,380
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 Kayseri 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 Kayseri 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