🌍 World Alive

Kahramanmaraş — UN urban centre

565,732

Kahramanmaraş: 565,732 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #970 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6189; 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: 37.5805, 36.9176. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975185,699Estimate
1980204,669Estimate
1985229,195Estimate
1990253,806Estimate
1995298,208Estimate
2000348,560Estimate
2005398,660Estimate
2010433,550Estimate
2015512,482Estimate
2020555,405Estimate
2025565,732Estimate
2030575,944Projection
2035583,239Projection
2040589,951Projection
2045594,956Projection
2050595,130Projection

Largest UN urban centres · Fastest-growing urban centres

What changed during your lifetime?

Turn these figures into a private, five-scene personal world story.

Use this source record with the right definition

This page is a structured reference entry. Its sources, geographic definition and reference dates determine what the figures mean; it is not independent reporting about the causes of change. Read the accompanying explanation before comparing different places or vintages.

Why an urban centre is not a municipality →

Interpretation reviewed 12 October 2026. Underlying reference years are stated on the page; this is not a fresh census or dataset refresh.