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Bandırma — UN urban centre

125,275

Bandırma: 125,275 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #4,885 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 1859; 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: 40.3461, 27.9768. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197551,711Estimate
198057,445Estimate
198564,237Estimate
199073,391Estimate
199580,141Estimate
200087,265Estimate
200593,112Estimate
201099,537Estimate
2015106,137Estimate
2020120,384Estimate
2025125,275Estimate
2030130,898Projection
2035137,352Projection
2040145,362Projection
2045147,820Projection
2050149,442Projection

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