Turkey
İzmir Province
Buca District

Buca

Buca is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 178 km2, and its population is 523,193. It is the biggest district of İzmir Province as terms of population.
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  • Type: Town with 518,000 residents
  • Description: ilçe (district), administrative county of İzmir, western Turkey
  • Also known as: “Buca district”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Buca Faculty of Education Campus, Dokuz Eylül University and Baptist Church.

College
Photo: İlyas YAZAR, CC BY 3.0.
is a college.

Church
Photo: Ozlmktv, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Metro station
is a proposed underground station on the Üçyol—Fuar İzmir Line of the İzmir Metro. It will be located beneath Menderes Avenue Buca. Construction of the station, along with the metro line, began in 2024.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Karabağlar and Altındağ.

Town
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is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 89 km2, and its population is 479,338. It is the second biggest district of İzmir Province as terms of population. is situated 4 km northwest of Buca.

Quarter
is a densely populated zone of 's district. The main intercity bus terminal of - IZOTAŞ is situated in 's Işıkkent quarter and is minutes away from centre on foot. is situated 4½ km northeast of Buca.

Quarter
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
is a historical market district of , Turkey. It remains one of the liveliest districts of İzmir. is situated 5 km northwest of Buca.

Buca

Latitude
38.38349° or 38° 23′ 1″ north
Longitude
27.16865° or 27° 10′ 7″ east
Population
518,000
Elevation
140 metres (459 feet)
Open location code
8GC995M9+9F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 260633626
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
320528
Wiki­data ID
Q2672826
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Mari—“Buca” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بوجة”
  • Arabic: “بُوجَةُ”
  • Asturian: “Buca (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Buca”
  • Azerbaijani: “Buca”
  • Belarusian: “Буджа”
  • Bulgarian: “Буджа”
  • Catalan: “Buca”
  • Cebuano: “Buca (distrito sa Turkiya)”
  • Cebuano: “Buca”
  • Chechen: “Буджа”
  • Chinese: “Buca”
  • Chinese: “布查”
  • Chinese: “布賈”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Buca”
  • Dutch: “Buca”
  • Esperanto: “Buca”
  • French: “Buca”
  • German: “Buca”
  • Greek: “Βουτζάς”
  • Irish: “Buca”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Buca”
  • Japanese: “ブカ”
  • Kurdish: “Buca”
  • Lithuanian: “Buča”
  • Malay: “Buca”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Buca”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Buca”
  • Norwegian: “Buca”
  • Persian: “بوجا”
  • Portuguese: “Buca (Turquia)”
  • Portuguese: “Buca”
  • Russian: “Буджа”
  • Serbian: “Буџа”
  • Spanish: “Buca”
  • Swahili: “Buca”
  • Tatar: “Буджа”
  • Turkish: “Buca, İzmir”
  • Turkish: “Buca”
  • Ukrainian: “Буджа”
  • Urdu: “بوجا”
  • Uzbek: “Buca”
  • Vietnamese: “Buca”
  • Western Mari: “Буджа”
  • “Buca ilçesi”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Buca”. Photo: İncelemeelemani, CC BY-SA 3.0.