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Siverek — UN urban centre

185,837

Siverek: 185,837 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #3,250 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 6547; 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: 37.7532, 39.3201. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.

UN population series

YearPeopleMethod
197571,232Estimate
198080,787Estimate
198591,770Estimate
1990103,592Estimate
1995125,163Estimate
2000141,258Estimate
2005147,798Estimate
2010147,876Estimate
2015166,213Estimate
2020183,341Estimate
2025185,837Estimate
2030186,305Projection
2035186,941Projection
2040186,874Projection
2045187,014Projection
2050186,095Projection

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