Istanbul set to eclipse London as Europe’s biggest city by 2020
So say Euromonitor International, who forecast that Istanbul’s population will eclipse that of London between 2018-19. The Turkish city has been growing at an average rate of 2.6% since 2007, when its population was 12 million. And it will continue its growth for the rest of the decade, ending up at 16.4 million.
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