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Sincan, 
Türkiye
1,149,921 people lived in Sincan in 2025. It is the 448th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 7th largest in Türkiye.
Like every city on this site, Sincan 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 Sincan grew
For every 10 people in Sincan in 1975, there were 92 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 1.3 million people in 2050. It passed a million people between 2015 and 2020.
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
Sincan through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Sincan 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). Sincan 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, Sincan covered 88 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 20 km² of it. That is 18 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 4 by 4 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 9.6 times its size, and its people are 9.2 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 100 people in Türkiye in 2025, 1 lived in Sincan, which is 1.1 million people.
How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person in Türkiye; the coloured squares live in Sincan. 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
- 444 Kirkuk Iraq1,153,160
- 445 Rosario Argentina1,151,717
- 446 Touba Senegal1,151,552
- 447 Turin Italy1,150,975
- 448 Sincan1,149,921
- 449 Yekaterinburg Russia1,148,237
- 450 Bhubaneshwar India1,146,434
- 451 Baltimore United States1,145,219
- 452 Sargodha Pakistan1,142,723
In Türkiye, 2025
- 188 Izmir2,650,237
- 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
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 Sincan 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 Sincan 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