Language and ethnicity A majority of the population speak
Kurdish with a
Turkic minority.
Population At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 65,842 in 16,309 households. The following census in 2011 counted 71,232 people in 19,869 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 78,276 people in 24,111 households. == Geography ==