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Konya, 
Türkiye
959,484 people lived in Konya in 2025. It is the 542nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 8th largest in Türkiye.
Like every city on this site, Konya is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Konya grew
Count 10 people in Konya in 1980 and the same count gives 142.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 960,002 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1990 and 1995. The UN first counts it as a city in 1980, when it passed 50,000 people.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Konya through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Konya 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 Konya; 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, Konya covered 230 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 47 km² of it. That is 49 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 7 by 7 metres. Since 1980, its built-up land has grown to 6.3 times its size, and its people are 14.2 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 100 people in Türkiye in 2025, 1 lived in Konya, which is 959,484 people.
How to read this: 100 squares stand for everyone in Türkiye, one square for every 100th person. Count the coloured ones and you have Konya's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 538 Zanzibar City Tanzania966,642
- 539 Dharwad India965,667
- 540 Lilongwe Malawi961,399
- 541 San Miguel de Tucumán Argentina959,565
- 542 Konya959,484
- 543 Samara Russia955,599
- 544 Mwanza Tanzania954,104
- 545 Dagupan [Lingayen] Philippines953,092
- 546 Faizabad India952,074
In Türkiye, 2025
- 216 Bursa2,281,622
- 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
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 Konya are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1980 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 Konya 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