Largest Cities in Turkey 2026: Population Ranking

Turkey's cities at a glance

Updated October 2026

Dots sized by population · Istanbul in orange

Turkey has 10 cities with more than a million inhabitants and 78 with more than 100,000 (city-proper figures). The largest is Istanbul with 15,701,602 people, followed by Ankara (3,517,182) and Bursa (3,101,833). The three largest cities together hold about 25.4% of the country's 88 million people.

The capital, Ankara, is the 2nd largest city with 3,517,182 people — Istanbul is 4.5× larger.

By region, the most large cities are in Şanlıurfa (4), Hatay (4), Kocaeli (3).

Country-level figures — live population, births and deaths, growth, density and history — are on the Turkey population page; provinces, terrain, rivers and society maps are in the Turkey atlas.

Turkey cities by population

78 cities · GeoNames · city proper

#	City	Region	Population	Share of Turkey
1	Istanbul	Istanbul	15,701,602	17.8%
2	AnkaraCapital	Ankara	3,517,182	4%
3	Bursa	Bursa Province	3,101,833	3.5%
4	İzmir	İzmir Province	2,938,292	3.3%
5	Gaziantep	Gaziantep	2,222,415	2.5%
6	Diyarbakır	Diyarbakır Province	1,833,684	2.1%
7	Adana	Adana	1,816,750	2.1%
8	Kayseri	Kayseri	1,452,458	1.7%
9	Konya	Konya	1,433,861	1.6%
10	Antalya	Antalya	1,335,002	1.5%
11	Eskişehir	Eskişehir	921,630	1%
12	Erzurum	Erzurum	767,848	0.9%
13	Malatya	Malatya	750,491	0.9%
14	Mersin	Mersin	537,842	0.6%
15	Van	Van	525,016	0.6%
16	Batman	Batman	452,157	0.5%
17	Şanlıurfa	Şanlıurfa	449,549	0.5%
18	Elazığ	Elazığ	443,363	0.5%
19	Antakya	Hatay	399,045	0.5%
20	Samsun	Samsun	394,050	0.4%
21	Kahramanmaraş	Kahramanmaraş	384,953	0.4%
22	Uşak	Uşak	369,433	0.4%
23	Alanya	Antalya	364,180	0.4%
24	Aksaray	Aksaray	327,575	0.4%
25	Denizli	Denizli	313,238	0.4%
26	Adıyaman	Adıyaman Province	290,883	0.3%
27	Adapazarı	Sakarya	286,787	0.3%
28	Gebze	Kocaeli	281,436	0.3%
29	Çorum	Çorum	269,595	0.3%
30	Sivas	Sivas	264,022	0.3%
31	Afyonkarahisar	Afyonkarahisar Province	251,799	0.3%
32	İskenderun	Hatay	251,682	0.3%
33	Trabzon	Trabzon	244,083	0.3%
34	Manisa	Manisa	243,971	0.3%
35	Balıkesir	Balıkesir	238,151	0.3%
36	Ordu	Ordu	229,214	0.3%
37	Osmaniye	Osmaniye	202,837	0.2%
38	Çorlu	Tekirdağ	202,578	0.2%
39	İzmit	Kocaeli	196,571	0.2%
40	Düzce	Düzce	194,097	0.2%
41	Kırıkkale	Kırıkkale	186,960	0.2%
42	Kütahya	Kütahya	185,008	0.2%
43	Bolu	Bolu	184,682	0.2%
44	Edirne	Edirne	180,002	0.2%
45	Karaman	Karaman	175,390	0.2%
46	Siverek	Şanlıurfa	175,341	0.2%
47	Isparta	Isparta	172,334	0.2%
48	Aydın	Aydın	163,022	0.2%
49	Ereğli	Konya	156,253	0.2%
50	Viranşehir	Şanlıurfa	154,163	0.2%
51	Erzincan	Erzincan	150,714	0.2%
52	Kırşehir	Kırşehir	150,700	0.2%
53	Kızıltepe	Mardin	150,174	0.2%
54	Çanakkale	Canakkale	143,622	0.2%
55	Cizre	Şırnak	134,041	0.2%
56	Silifke	Mersin	132,665	0.2%
57	Mardin	Mardin	129,864	0.1%
58	Tokat	Tokat Province	129,702	0.1%
59	Bingöl	Bingöl	128,935	0.1%
60	Giresun	Giresun	125,682	0.1%
61	Kastamonu	Kastamonu	125,622	0.1%
62	Derince	Kocaeli	125,485	0.1%
63	Karabük	Karabük Province	125,403	0.1%
64	Ağrı	Ağrı	124,483	0.1%
65	Samandağ	Hatay	123,447	0.1%
66	Tekirdağ	Tekirdağ	122,287	0.1%
67	Rize	Rize Province	119,828	0.1%
68	Nazilli	Aydın	119,370	0.1%
69	Salihli	Manisa	119,311	0.1%
70	Amasya	Amasya	114,921	0.1%
71	Silopi	Şırnak	114,645	0.1%
72	Siirt	Siirt	114,034	0.1%
73	Kilis	Kilis	111,648	0.1%
74	Arsuz	Hatay	109,550	0.1%
75	Bandırma	Balıkesir	107,631	0.1%
76	Zonguldak	Zonguldak Province	101,749	0.1%
77	Iğdır	Iğdır	101,700	0.1%
78	Suruç	Şanlıurfa	101,178	0.1%

Cities with 300,000 or more people link to their own page. The list keeps every city of 100,000+ and at least the 30 largest places of the country.

Frequently asked questions

What is the largest city in Turkey?

Istanbul, with about 15,701,602 inhabitants (city proper). It is larger than the capital, Ankara (3,517,182).

What is the capital of Turkey?

Ankara — population 3,517,182, the 2nd largest city in the country.

How many cities in Turkey have over one million people?

10: Istanbul, Ankara, Bursa, İzmir, Gaziantep, Diyarbakır, Adana, Kayseri, Konya, Antalya.

Are these metropolitan-area populations?

No. They are city-proper figures (the administrative city) from GeoNames, based on the latest census or official estimate. Metropolitan areas, which include suburbs and satellite towns, are larger — often several times larger for the biggest cities.

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