THE FEATURES OF POPULATION GEOGRAPHY OF AFYONKARAHİSAR

Afyonkarahisar is located in the inner West Anatolian part of the Aegean region and at an important junction point in terms of transportation. In 1927, when the first census of the republican period was carried out, while Afyonkarahisar was the 18th most populous city in the country with a population of 258.743 people, by 2019, its population reached 729.483 but declined to 31st in the country. Afyonkarahisar, which has a very mountonious structure, Since it could not provide its economic development at the desired level, it send imigrants primarily to İzmir and its surrounding cities metropolitan cities such as İstanbul and Ankara. In the province, whose economy is based on agriculture and animal husbandry, approximately 40.2% of the population lives in rural areas as of 2019. In this study, some characteristics of the population of the city of Afyonkarahisar have been examined within the scope of population geography. In this context, development of the population of the province during the republic period, growth rates over the years, rural-urban rates, gender and age structure, migrations and the distribution in the province was examined during the census years.