What is the population of Bursa?
Bursa has a city population of 3,101,833. That is the population within the city's own boundary, not its wider metropolitan area. City population, GeoNames.
City profile · Turkey · Asia
Bursa
City population
3,101,833
#3
in Turkey
#1
in Bursa Province
#111
worldwide
40.196, 29.060 · 324 km from Ankara
About Bursa
Three cities with populations exceeding 24,000 lie within 13 km, with Nilüfer at 12 km holding 536,365 residents. The city proper has a population of 3,101,833, making it Turkey's third-largest city and accounting for 3.6% of the national population. Bursa lies 324 km from Ankara.
This summary is AI-generated from the figures on this page. The figures themselves come from the sources cited beside each value.
Key Facts
Country
Region
Rank in region
#1of 14
Elevation
155 m
Approximate — modelled, not surveyed
Time zone
Europe/Istanbul
Coordinates
40.196, 29.060
Record updated
2026-04-14
Entry edited, not measured
City population, GeoNames. GeoNames publishes no year for its population figures, so “record updated” is when the entry was last edited — not the date the population was measured. Elevation is modelled from a digital elevation model rather than surveyed, so it is approximate.
Nearby Cities
All 416 in TurkeyClosest listed cities by great-circle distance from the city centre.
Compared with the World's Largest Cities
City-proper population against the fifteen largest cities in the dataset.
| Name | City population |
|---|---|
| Shanghai | 24.9M |
| Beijing | 19M |
| Shenzhen | 17.5M |
| Guangzhou | 16.1M |
| Kinshasa | 16M |
| Istanbul | 15.7M |
| Lagos | 15.4M |
| Ho Chi Minh City | 14M |
| Chengdu | 13.6M |
| Lahore | 13M |
| Mumbai | 12.7M |
| São Paulo | 12.4M |
| Mexico City | 12.3M |
| Karachi | 11.6M |
| Tianjin | 11.1M |
| Bursa | 3.1M |
Bursa Population FAQ
Where is Bursa?
Bursa is in Bursa Province, Turkey, 324 km from the capital, Ankara. Its coordinates are 40.196, 29.060.
How big is Bursa compared with other cities in Turkey?
It is the 3rd largest of the 416 cities of 15,000 or more listed in Turkey, holding 3.6% of the national population.