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Malatya, 
Türkiye
506,854 people lived in Malatya in 2025. It is the 1092nd largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 21st largest in Türkiye.
That figure counts the whole built-up area, not the area Malatya governs, so it may be far from the number the city publishes about itself. How the UN measures a city.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Malatya grew
Count 10 people in Malatya in 1975 and the same count gives 35.9 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 534,207 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
Malatya through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Malatya in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Türkiye · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: Malatya is the dot in colour with a ring around it. The grey dots are the other cities of Türkiye in 2025, 177 in all, led by Istanbul, each drawn with an area that matches its people. Countries next door are outlines only.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Malatya covered 52 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 12 km² of it. That is 23 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 3.5 times its size, and its people are 3.6 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 Malatya, which is 506,854 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 Malatya's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1088 Hegang China509,748
- 1089 Wrocław Poland508,528
- 1090 Fuxin China508,131
- 1091 Shunyi China507,591
- 1092 Malatya506,854
- 1093 Kashgar China506,476
- 1094 Kohat Pakistan506,145
- 1095 Belkuchi Bangladesh505,615
- 1096 Jingjiang China505,098
In Türkiye, 2025
- 922 Van590,314
- 970 Kahramanmaraş565,732
- 977 Denizli561,327
- 1047 Hatay530,262
- 1092 Malatya506,854
- 1217 Batman456,902
- 1369 Elazığ411,268
- 1417 Manisa399,014
- 1518 İskenderun375,056
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 Malatya 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 Malatya 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