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Trabzon, 
Türkiye
320,468 people lived in Trabzon in 2025. It is the 1794th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 30th 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 Trabzon grew
For every 10 people in Trabzon in 1975, there were 28.8 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 281,568 people in 2050. It passed 250,000 people between 1995 and 2000.
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
Trabzon through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Trabzon 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). Trabzon 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, Trabzon covered 53 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 8.5 km² of it. That is 27 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 2.6 times its size, and its people are 2.9 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, 4 lived in Trabzon, which is 320,468 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 Trabzon's share; the grey remainder live somewhere else in the country.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 1790 Chuzhou China321,424
- 1791 Ilebo Democratic Republic of the Congo321,392
- 1792 Quảng Ngãi Vietnam320,907
- 1793 Famenin Iran320,591
- 1794 Trabzon320,468
- 1795 Ranipet India320,233
- 1796 Aksu China320,179
- 1797 Catia La Mar [La Guaira] Venezuela320,109
- 1798 Balurghat India319,934
In Türkiye, 2025
- 1551 Sivas368,209
- 1640 Sakarya348,302
- 1686 Çerkezköy338,995
- 1753 Balıkesir328,080
- 1794 Trabzon320,468
- 2034 Osmaniye286,108
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 Trabzon 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 Trabzon 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 →
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