Balçova

Balçova is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 16 km2, and its population is 80,721. It covers the western part of the Greater Metropolitan Area of .
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Wikipedia
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  • Type: Town with 80,000 residents
  • Description: district of İzmir, western Turkey
  • Also known as: “Balcova” and “Balçova district”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Balçova and İstinyePark İzmir.

Metro station
Photo: Satirdan kahraman, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an underground station on the M1 Line of the İzmir Metro in . Located next to Mithatpaşa Avenue, it has one island platform servicing two tracks. The station was opened on 24 February 2024, after almost 6 years of construction.

Shopping center
Photo: BSRF, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a shopping center.

University
Photo: İzmir Ekonomi Üniversitesi, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hatay and Karataş.

Quarter
İzmir is the third most populous city in , after and . It is on the coast of , and is the capital of . is situated 4 km east of Balçova.

Quarter
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is a neighborhood of , , within the boundaries of the city's central metropolitan district of Konak. The neighborhood no longer has an official delimitation or status and exists as a notional zone that is admitted to stretch along the small cove of the same name in the . is situated 6 km east of Balçova.

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 6 km east of Balçova.

Balçova

Latitude
38.39531° or 38° 23′ 43″ north
Longitude
27.05787° or 27° 3′ 28″ east
Population
80,000
Elevation
41 metres (135 feet)
Open location code
8GC993W5+44
Open­Street­Map ID
node 260633635
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
322185
Wiki­data ID
Q2636596
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Mari—“Balçova” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بلجوة”
  • Asturian: “Balçova (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Balçova”
  • Azerbaijani: “Balçova”
  • Bulgarian: “Балчова”
  • Catalan: “Balçova”
  • Cebuano: “Balçova”
  • Chechen: “Балчова”
  • Chinese: “Balçova”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Balçova”
  • Dutch: “Balçova”
  • Esperanto: “Balcova”
  • French: “Balçova”
  • German: “Balçova”
  • Greek: “Μπαλτσοβά”
  • Irish: “Balçova”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Balçova”
  • Japanese: “バルチョバ”
  • Kurdish: “Balçova”
  • Lithuanian: “Balčova”
  • Malay: “Balçova”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Balçova”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Balçova”
  • Norwegian: “Balçova”
  • Persian: “بالچووا”
  • Serbian: “Балчова”
  • Swahili: “Balçova”
  • Tatar: “Балчова”
  • Turkish: “Balçova, İzmir”
  • Turkish: “Balçova”
  • Urdu: “بالچووا”
  • Vietnamese: “Balçova”
  • Western Mari: “Балчова”
  • “Balçova ilçesi”

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