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City profile · Turkey · Asia

Küçükçekmece

Istanbul · Turkey
City population
792,030
#14
in Turkey
#3
in Istanbul
#700
worldwide
AnkaraKüçükçekmece
40.991, 28.771 · 365 km from Ankara
City population
792,030
Within the city boundary, not a metro area
Rank in Turkey
#14
of 416 cities of 15,000+
World rank
#700
of 31,365 cities listed
Share of Turkey
0.9%
of the national population

About Küçükçekmece

Surrounded by five cities within 11 km, the third-largest in Istanbul holds 792,030 people. The nearest neighbours are Esenyurt (983,571) and Bağcılar (740,069), each 9 km away, followed by Bahçelievler and Yakuplu at 8 km. Located 365 km from Ankara, the city accounts for 0.9% of Turkey's population.

This summary is AI-generated from the figures on this page. The figures themselves come from the sources cited beside each value.

Position in Turkey
#14of 416
LargestSmallest
Position in Istanbul
#3of 30
LargestSmallest

Key Facts

Country
Turkey
Region
Istanbul
Rank in region
#3of 30
Distance to capital
365 km
to Ankara
Elevation
63 m
Approximate — modelled, not surveyed
Time zone
Europe/Istanbul
Coordinates
40.991, 28.771
Record updated
2026-06-12
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 Turkey

Closest listed cities by great-circle distance from the city centre.

8KMBahçelievler577K people9KMEsenyurt984K people9KMBağcılar740K people11KMEsenler520K people11KMBeylikdüzü415K people

Compared with the World's Largest Cities

City-proper population against the fifteen largest cities in the dataset.

  1. Shanghai24.9M
  2. Beijing19M
  3. Shenzhen17.5M
  4. Guangzhou16.1M
  5. Kinshasa16M
  6. Istanbul15.7M
  7. Lagos15.4M
  8. Ho Chi Minh City14M
  9. Chengdu13.6M
  10. Lahore13M
  11. Mumbai12.7M
  12. São Paulo12.4M
  13. Mexico City12.3M
  14. Karachi11.6M
  15. Tianjin11.1M
  16. Küçükçekmece792K
City-proper figures only. Administrative boundaries differ between countries, so these are not directly comparable to metropolitan-area estimates.
Küçükçekmece compared with the fifteen largest cities
NameCity population
Shanghai24.9M
Beijing19M
Shenzhen17.5M
Guangzhou16.1M
Kinshasa16M
Istanbul15.7M
Lagos15.4M
Ho Chi Minh City14M
Chengdu13.6M
Lahore13M
Mumbai12.7M
São Paulo12.4M
Mexico City12.3M
Karachi11.6M
Tianjin11.1M
Küçükçekmece792K

Küçükçekmece Population FAQ

What is the population of Küçükçekmece?

Küçükçekmece has a city population of 792,030. That is the population within the city's own boundary, not its wider metropolitan area. City population, GeoNames.

Where is Küçükçekmece?

Küçükçekmece is in Istanbul, Turkey, 365 km from the capital, Ankara. Its coordinates are 40.991, 28.771.

How big is Küçükçekmece compared with other cities in Turkey?

It is the 14th largest of the 416 cities of 15,000 or more listed in Turkey, holding 0.9% of the national population.

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