Sincan
Sincan is a municipality and metropolitan district of Ankara Province, Turkey. Its area is 880 km2, and its population is 572,609. It is a large town 27 km from the city of Ankara.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 590,000 residents
- Description: district of Ankara, west-central Turkey
- Also known as: “Sincan district”, “Sincan, Ankara”, and “Sincanköy”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sincan railway station and Lale railway station.
Sincan railway station
Railway station
Photo: Central Data Bank, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sincan railway station is a railway station in Sincan, Ankara and the western terminus of the Başkentray commuter rail line. Prior to the closure of all non-YHT trains within Ankara, the station was an intercity and regional rail station.
Lale railway station
Railway station
Photo: Modern primat, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lale railway station is a railway station in Ankara, Turkey. The station was a stop on the Ankara suburban from 1972 to 2016 when it was closed and demolished shortly after, in order to rebuild and expand the railway.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Eryaman and Etimesgut.
Eryaman
Suburb
Eryaman is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Etimesgut, Ankara Province, Turkey. Located 28 km west of the city centre of Ankara, its population is 30,275 as of 2022. Eryaman is situated 3½ km east of Sincan.
Etimesgut
Town
Photo: Gargarapalvin, CC BY 4.0.
Etimesgut, formerly Ahimesut, is a municipality and metropolitan district of Ankara Province, Turkey. Its area is 273 km2, and its population is 614,891. Etimesgut is situated 7 km east of Sincan.
Sincan
- Categories: district of Turkey and locality
- Location: Sincan İlçesi, Ankara Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
39.96551° or 39° 57′ 56″ northLongitude
32.57944° or 32° 34′ 46″ eastPopulation
590,000Elevation
794 metres (2,605 feet)United Nations Location Code
TR SCNOpen location code
8GFJXH8H+6QOpenStreetMap ID
node 2352111108OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Sincan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سنجان (أنقرة)”
- Arabic: “سنجان”
- Arabic: “سِنْجَانُ”
- Arabic: “قضاء سنجان”
- Asturian: “Sincan (distritu)”
- Asturian: “Sincan”
- Catalan: “Sincan”
- Cebuano: “Sincan İlçesi”
- Chechen: “Синджан”
- Chinese: “Sincan”
- Chinese: “辛坎”
- Chinese: “辛詹”
- Dimli (individual language): “Sincan”
- Dutch: “Sincan”
- Finnish: “Sincan”
- French: “Sincan”
- German: “Sincan”
- Greek: “Σιντζάν”
- Irish: “Sincan”
- Italian: “Distretto di Sincan”
- Japanese: “シンカン”
- Kinyarwanda: “Akarere ka Sincan”
- Kinyarwanda: “Sincan”
- Komi-Permyak: “Синджан”
- Kurdish: “Sincan, Enqere”
- Lak: “Синджан”
- Malay: “Sincan, Ankara”
- Malay: “Sincan”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sincan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sincan”
- Norwegian: “Sincan”
- Persian: “سینجان، آنکارا”
- Portuguese: “Sincan”
- Russian: “Синджан”
- Serbian: “Синџан”
- Spanish: “Sincan, Ankara”
- Spanish: “Sincan”
- Swahili: “Sincan, Ankara”
- Swahili: “Sincan”
- Tatar: “Синҗан (Анкара)”
- Tatar: “Синҗан”
- Turkish: “Sincan”
- Urdu: “سینجان، انقرہ”
- Western Mari: “Синджан”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع سنجان”
- “Sincan ilçesi”
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