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Karabük — UN urban centre

197,470

Karabük: 197,470 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,030 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 4729; 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: 41.2023, 32.6305. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197563,128Estimate
198076,511Estimate
198594,890Estimate
1990105,749Estimate
1995105,196Estimate
2000102,111Estimate
2005106,397Estimate
2010149,986Estimate
2015170,381Estimate
2020191,632Estimate
2025197,470Estimate
2030204,247Projection
2035210,298Projection
2040214,096Projection
2045216,916Projection
2050218,508Projection

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