Ankara
Ankara is the capital of Turkey, central within the country on the plateau of Central Anatolia. It's a sprawling modern place around an ancient citadel, and in 2022 had a population of 5,187,949, with a further 600,000 living in the wider metropolis.Photo: Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Korkut Tas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Hamdan Qarmat, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Anıtkabir
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Anıtkabir is a complex located in the Çankaya district of Ankara, which includes the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
Museum of Anatolian Civilizations
Photo: JoJan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Museum of Anatolian Civilizations is located on the south side of Ankara Castle in the Atpazarı area in Ankara, Turkey.
State Art and Sculpture Museum
The State Art and Sculpture Museum is a museum dedicated to fine arts and sculpture in Ankara, Turkey.Localities in the Area
Altındağ
Photo: Dennis Jarvis, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Altındağ is a municipality and district of Ankara Province, Turkey.
Kızılay
Photo: Veritas-tr, Public domain.
Kızılay is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Çankaya, Ankara Province, Turkey.
Ankara
- Type: City with 5,750,000 residents
- Description: capital of Turkey
- Categories: metropolitan municipality in Turkey, million city and locality
- Location: Ankara Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
39.9208° or 39° 55' 15" northLongitude
32.8541° or 32° 51' 15" eastPopulation
5,750,000Elevation
850 metres (2,789 feet)IATA airport code
ANKUnited Nations Location Code
TR ANKOpen Location Code
8GFJWVC3+8JOpenStreetMap ID
node 25869410OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
323786Wikidata ID
Q3640Ankara Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Anqara
- Abkhazian: Анкара
- Achinese: Ankara
- Adyghe: Анкара
- Afar: Ankara
- Afrikaans: Ankara
- Akan: Ankara
- Albanian: Ankara
- Albanian: Ankaraja
- Amharic: አንካራ
- Arabic: Ankara
- Arabic: أنقرة
- Arabic: أنكارا
- Aragonese: Ankara
- Armenian: Անգարա
- Armenian: Անգորա
- Armenian: Անկարա
- Armenian: Անկյուրա
- Arpitan: Ankara
- Asturian: Ankara
- Avaric: Анкара
- Aymara: Ankara
- Azerbaijani: Ankara
- Balinese: Ankara
- Bambara: Ankara
- Banjar: Angkara
- Bashkir: Анкара
- Basque: Ankara
- Belarusian: Анкара
- Bengali: আংকারা
- Bengali: আঙ্কারা
- Bosnian: Ankara
- Breton: Ankara
- Bulgarian: Анкара
- Burmese: အန်ကာရာမြို့
- Catalan: Ancyra
- Catalan: Ankara
- Cebuano: Ankara
- Central Bikol: Ankara
- Central Kurdish: ئەنقەرە
- Chamorro: Ankara
- Chavacano: Ankara
- Chechen: Анкара
- Chinese: Ankara
- Chinese: 安卡拉
- Church Slavic: Анкара
- Church Slavic: Анкѷра
- Chuvash: Анкара
- Crimean Tatar: Ankara
- Croatian: Ankara
- Czech: Ankara
- Danish: Ankara
- Dimli (individual language): Anqara
- Dutch: Ankara
- Eastern Mari: Анкара
- Egyptian Arabic: انقره
- Egyptian Arabic: انكارا
- English: Angora
- Erzya: Анкара ош
- Esperanto: Ankara
- Esperanto: Ankaro
- Estonian: Ankara
- Faroese: Ankara
- Fiji Hindi: Ankara
- Fijian: Ankara
- Finnish: Ankara
- French: Ankara
- Friulian: Ankara
- Gagauz: Ankara
- Galician: Ancara
- Galician: Angora
- Galician: Ankara
- Georgian: ანკარა
- German: Angora
- German: Ankara
- Greek: Άγκυρα (Ankyra)
- Greek: Άγκυρα
- Gujarati: અંકારા
- Haitian: Ankara
- Hakka Chinese: Ankara
- Hausa: Ankara
- Hawaiian: Ankara
- Hebrew: אנקרה
- Hindi: अंकारा
- Hungarian: Angora
- Hungarian: Ankara
- Icelandic: Ankara
- Ido: Ankara
- Iloko: Ankara
- Inari Sami: Ankara
- Indonesian: Ankara
- Interlingua: Ankara
- Interlingue: Ancara
- Inupiaq: Ankara
- Irish: Ankara
- Italian: Ankara
- Jamaican Creole English: Ankara
- Japanese: アンカラ
- Japanese: アンキュラ
- Javanese: Ankara
- Kabardian: Анкара
- Kabyle: Ankara
- Kalaallisut: Ankara
- Kalo Finnish Romani: Ankara
- Kannada: ಅಂಕರ
- Kannada: ಅಂಕಾರಾ
- Kara-Kalpak: Ankara
- Kashubian: Ankara
- Kazakh: Анкара
- Kikuyu: Ankara
- Kildin Sami: Анкара
- Kinyarwanda: Ankara
- Kirghiz: Анкара
- Komi-Permyak: Анкара
- Korean: 앙까라
- Korean: 앙카라
- Kurdish: Enqere
- Ladino: Ankara
- Lak: Анкъара
- Lao: Ankara
- Lao: ອັງກາລາ
- Latin: Ancyra
- Latvian: Ankara
- Ligurian: Ankara
- Limburgan: Ankara
- Lingala: Ankara
- Lingua Franca Nova: Ancara
- Lithuanian: Ankara
- Livvi: Ankara
- Lombard: Ankara
- Low German: Ankara
- Lower Sorbian: Ankara
- Lule Sami: Ankara
- Luxembourgish: Ankara
- Macedo-Romanian: Ancara
- Macedo-Romanian: Ankara
- Macedonian: Анкара
- Maithili: अङ्कारा
- Malagasy: Ankara
- Malay: Ankara
- Malayalam: അങ്കാറ
- Maltese: Ankara
- Manx: Ankara
- Maori: Anakara
- Marathi: अंकारा
- Mazanderani: آنکارا
- Min Dong Chinese: Ankara
- Min Dong Chinese: Ăng-kā-lá
- Min Nan Chinese: Ankara
- Minangkabau: Ankara
- Mingrelian: ანკარა
- Moksha: Анкара
- Mongolian: Анкара
- Mongolian: Анкара хот
- Moroccan Arabic: أنقارا
- N'Ko: ߊ߲ߞߙߊ߫
- Navajo: Tséłbáí Dah Yiskʼid
- Nepali: अंकारा
- Nepali: अङ्कारा
- Northern Frisian: Ankara
- Northern Luri: آستون آنکارا
- Northern Sami: Ankara
- Norwegian: Ankara
- Norwegian Bokmål: Ankara
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Ankara
- Novial: Ankara
- Occitan (post 1500): Ankara
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܐܢܩܪܐ
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Ancyra
- Oriya: ଆଙ୍କାରା
- Ossetian: Анкара
- Pa'o Karen: ဝေင်ꩻအန်ကာရာ
- Panjabi: ਅੰਕਾਰਾ
- Papiamento: Ankara
- Persian: آنکارا
- Picard: Ankara
- Piemontese: Ankara
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Ankara
- Pite Sami: Ankara
- Polish: Ankara
- Portuguese: Ancara
- Pushto: انقره
- Quechua: Ankara
- Romanian: Ancara
- Romanian: Ankara
- Rundi: Ankara
- Russia Buriat: Анкара
- Russian: Анкара
- Samogitian: Ankara
- Scots: Ankara
- Scottish Gaelic: Ancara
- Scottish Gaelic: Ankara
- Serbian: Анкара
- Serbo-Croatian: Ankara
- Shona: Ankara
- Sicilian: Ankara
- Silesian: Ankara
- Sindhi: انقره
- Sinhala: ඇන්කාරා
- Skolt Sami: Ankara
- Slovak: Ankara
- Slovenian: Ankara
- Somali: Ankara
- South Azerbaijani: آنکارا
- Southern Sami: Ankara
- Spanish: Angora
- Spanish: Ankara
- Swahili: Ankara
- Swedish: Ankara
- Swiss German: Ankara
- Tagalog: Ankara
- Tajik: Анкара
- Tajik: Анқара
- Talysh: Ankara
- Tamil: அங்காரா
- Tamil: அன்கரா
- Tatar: Әнкара
- Telugu: అంకారా
- Tetum: Ankara
- Thai: อังการา
- Tibetan: ཨན་ཀ་ར།
- Tibetan: ཨན་ཁ་ར།
- Tornedalen Finnish: Ankara
- Tosk Albanian: Ankara
- Tumbuka: Ankara
- Turkish: Ankara, Türkiye
- Turkish: Ankara
- Turkmen: Ankara
- Twi: Ankara
- Udmurt: Анкара
- Uighur: Enqere
- Uighur: ئەنقەرە
- Ukrainian: Анкара
- Ume Sami: Ankara
- Upper Sorbian: Ankara
- Urdu: انقرہ
- Uzbek: Anqara
- Venetian: Angora
- Veps: Ankar
- Vietnamese: Ankara
- Vlax Romani: Ankara
- Volapük: Ankara
- Võro: Ankara
- Waray (Philippines): Ankara
- Welsh: Ancyra
- Welsh: Ankara
- Western Armenian: Անգարա
- Western Frisian: Ankara
- Western Mari: Анкара
- Western Panjabi: انقرا
- Western Panjabi: انکرہ
- Wolof: Ankara
- Wu Chinese: 安卡拉
- Yakut: Анкара
- Yiddish: אנקארא
- Yoruba: Ankara
- Yue Chinese: 安卡拉
- Zeeuws: Ankara
- Anguriyah
- Ankura
- Ankyra
- Engüri
- Ӏэнкъэрэкъалэ
- अंकारा, तुर्की
Other Places Named Ankara
In the Area
- KocatepeSuburb
- MeşrutiyetSuburb
- FidanlıkSuburb
- Namık KemalSuburb
- KorkutreisSuburb
- KültürSuburb
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