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Manisa, 
Türkiye
399,014 people lived in Manisa in 2025. It is the 1417th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 24th largest in Türkiye.
This is the UN's built-up area, drawn from satellite pictures and census maps rather than from the city limits, and the two can be a long way apart. The rule behind it.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Manisa grew
Where Manisa had 10 people in 1975, it had 46.3 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 415,099 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2005 and 2010.
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
Manisa through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Manisa 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). Manisa 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, Manisa covered 49 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 12 km² of it. That is 30 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 4.2 times its size, and its people are 4.6 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, 5 lived in Manisa, which is 399,014 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Türkiye; the coloured squares live in Manisa. 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
- 1413 Saki Nigeria400,875
- 1414 Modinagar India400,401
- 1415 Podolsk Russia400,335
- 1416 Guarenas Venezuela399,477
- 1417 Manisa399,014
- 1418 Wuzhou China398,593
- 1419 Stockton United States398,470
- 1420 Biratnagar Nepal398,453
- 1421 Pratapgarh India398,315
In Türkiye, 2025
- 1047 Hatay530,262
- 1092 Malatya506,854
- 1217 Batman456,902
- 1369 Elazığ411,268
- 1417 Manisa399,014
- 1518 İskenderun375,056
- 1551 Sivas368,209
- 1640 Sakarya348,302
- 1686 Çerkezköy338,995
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 Manisa 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 Manisa 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