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Manisa — UN urban centre

399,014

Manisa: 399,014 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #1,417 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1496; territory: Türkiye (TUR). UN source workbook.

Method: Degree of Urbanisation (contiguous 1 km2 cells, density 1,500+ people/km2, total 50,000+). This is a source-defined urban centre, not a municipality or province. No association with a separate administrative entity is inferred from proximity or name.

Source centroid: 38.6193, 27.4059. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197586,179Estimate
1980103,517Estimate
1985117,846Estimate
1990142,132Estimate
1995166,389Estimate
2000206,133Estimate
2005246,133Estimate
2010290,318Estimate
2015348,147Estimate
2020393,477Estimate
2025399,014Estimate
2030410,060Projection
2035413,656Projection
2040415,693Projection
2045416,575Projection
2050415,099Projection

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