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Akçaabat — UN urban centre

103,406

Akçaabat: 103,406 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #5,991 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6403; 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: 41.0155, 39.5903. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
1975101,287Estimate
1980101,532Estimate
1985101,713Estimate
1990102,162Estimate
1995104,361Estimate
2000108,030Estimate
2005108,997Estimate
2010107,254Estimate
2015109,950Estimate
2020105,404Estimate
2025103,406Estimate
2030101,111Projection
203599,074Projection
204096,662Projection
204594,349Projection
205091,503Projection

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