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Sivas, 
Türkiye
368,209 people lived in Sivas in 2025. It is the 1551st largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 26th 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 Sivas grew
Count 10 people in Sivas in 1975 and the same count gives 26.4 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 320,925 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 2000 and 2005.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: one column every five years, 1975 to 2050; its height is the number of people. Hatched columns are the UN's projection. The thin strip beneath says how sure the UN is of each figure: the stronger the colour, the surer. A blank means the place was not on the UN's list of cities that year.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Sivas through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Sivas 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). Sivas 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, Sivas covered 35 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 7.5 km² of it. That is 20 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.3 times its size, and its people are 2.6 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 1,000 people in Türkiye in 2025, 4 lived in Sivas, which is 368,209 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Türkiye; the coloured squares live in Sivas. 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
- 1547 Campina Grande Brazil369,184
- 1548 Dehri India368,750
- 1549 Shuyang China368,686
- 1550 Thoothukudi India368,221
- 1551 Sivas368,209
- 1552 Shihezi China367,883
- 1553 Plano United States367,716
- 1554 Godhra India367,633
- 1555 Xianyou China367,523
In Türkiye, 2025
- 1217 Batman456,902
- 1369 Elazığ411,268
- 1417 Manisa399,014
- 1518 İskenderun375,056
- 1551 Sivas368,209
- 1640 Sakarya348,302
- 1686 Çerkezköy338,995
- 1753 Balıkesir328,080
- 1794 Trabzon320,468
How to read this: names are in order of size, the leading number being each city's rank among all 12,138 in 2025; the bars share a scale within a list. A jump in the ranks means a city under 300,000 people, which is not given a page here.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Sivas 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 Sivas 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