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İstanbul

First-level unit, Türkiye: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Page GRX-TUR-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO TUR / TRStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
13,651,241
people (GHSL 2025)
5,455 km²
area
16.4%
of Türkiye
39
units inside

01Map

Inside İstanbul

The 39 ADM2 units of İstanbul.

FIG 1 · 39 units inside İstanbul
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Choose a humanitarian figure from the list to colour and raise the units by it; each figure shows its source on the unit page. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

People · GHSL 2025

13,651,241

16.4% of Türkiye.

People · WorldPop 2025

15,203,839

+11% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

பரப்பு

5,455 km²

2,503 people per km².

குறியீடு

TR-34

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Low coastal zone

283,995

people on land at or below 10 m, 2.1% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Humanitarian data

İstanbul in humanitarian data

Source observations from the Humanitarian Data Exchange, matched to this unit by name, each with its reference date, provider and licence. They are not index values.

Rainfall · 2026-10-10

69%

of the long-term average, latest dekad. WFP – World Food Programme · Creative Commons Attribution International (CC BY).

04Units

39 units inside İstanbul

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 · Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0.

Unit குறியீடு People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Arnavutköy – 182,496 1,163,679 479.42 381 1.2% 632
Ataşehir – 267,804 255,981 25.34 10,568 1.7% 0
Avcılar – 320,416 291,844 51.3 6,246 2.1% 28,140
Bağcılar – 991,156 420,319 22.32 44,407 6.4% 0
Bahçelievler – 700,145 296,910 16.51 42,407 4.5% 0
Bakırköy – 215,164 442,592 30.01 7,170 1.4% 24,818
Başakşehir – 821,779 1,357,032 106.08 7,747 5.3% 14,877
Bayrampaşa – 196,450 156,750 9.54 20,592 1.3% 0
Beşiktaş – 162,722 350,601 17.87 9,106 1.1% 1,276
Beykoz – 453,897 597,012 311.6 1,457 2.9% 6,529
Beylikdüzü – 180,835 500,660 38.27 4,725 1.2% 7,234
Beyoğlu – 367,073 267,601 8.93 41,106 2.4% 38,867
Büyükçekmece – 172,003 908,278 162.46 1,059 1.1% 5,216
Çatalca – 65,852 184,231 1,134.74 58 0.4% 2,395
Çekmeköy – 257,941 304,339 151.91 1,698 1.7% 0
Esenler – 826,759 335,123 18.18 45,476 5.3% 0
Esenyurt – 477,910 712,988 42.69 11,195 3.1% 0
Eyüpsultan – 693,457 682,894 231.18 3,000 4.5% 12,007
Fatih – 336,890 268,809 16.36 20,592 2.2% 0
Gaziosmanpaşa – 301,949 183,754 11.7 25,808 1.9% 0
Güngören – 991,156 420,319 7.07 140,192 6.4% 0
Kadıköy – 367,351 233,877 24.93 14,735 2.4% 12,965
Kağıthane – 659,685 401,458 14.89 44,304 4.3% 0
Kartal – 155,892 155,892 38.39 4,061 1% 0
Küçükçekmece – 401,763 306,419 44.72 8,984 2.6% 47,266
Maltepe – 518,163 539,906 54.08 9,581 3.3% 11,622
Pendik – 617,097 874,224 189.64 3,254 4% 18,207
Prince Islands – 5,060 4,417 11.43 443 0% 0
Sancaktepe – 221,140 320,254 64.87 3,409 1.4% 0
Sarıyer – 307,112 653,307 175.63 1,749 2% 3,361
Şile – 29,721 41,188 783.35 38 0.2% 1,146
Silivri – 122,791 260,401 867.24 142 0.8% 5,122
Şişli – 301,955 183,758 10.69 28,246 1.9% 0
Sultanbeyli – 244,679 223,552 29.08 8,414 1.6% 0
Sultangazi – 267,194 155,419 36.55 7,310 1.7% 0
Tuzla – 300,536 573,236 125.08 2,403 1.9% 16,355
Ümraniye – 737,141 447,219 44.96 16,395 4.8% 0
Üsküdar – 771,267 437,968 35.47 21,744 5% 0
Zeytinburnu – 481,289 384,027 11.36 42,367 3.1% 22,649
05வெளிப்பாடு

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
None at this resolution
Ports
None at this resolution
Airports
None at this resolution
Major roads
None at this resolution
Railways
None at this resolution
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
06இடர்

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for İstanbul publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Türkiye.
07Neighbours

Neighbouring units

08மூலங்கள்

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen TUR ADM1, source: Open Street Map, licence: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2021. Offered under the same licence (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen TUR ADM2, source: OpenStreetMap, OSM Boundaries © OpenStreetMap contributors, licence: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2021. Offered under the same licence (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
நாடுகள்
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.