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Istanbul is a very large city of fantastic history, culture and beauty. Called Byzantium in ancient times, the city's name was changed to Constantinople in 324 CE when it was rebuilt by the first Christian Roman Emperor, Constantine.
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  • Type: Province with 15,700,000 residents
  • Description: province in northwestern Turkey
  • Also known as: “İst”, “İstanbul”, “Istanbul Province”, “İstanbul Province”, “İstanbul Vilâyeti”, “Miklagard”, and “Miklagård”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bosphorus Bridge and bridge Faith Sultan Mehmet.

Bridge
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The , known officially as the 15 July Martyrs Bridge and colloquially as the First Bridge, is the oldest and southernmost of the three suspension bridges spanning the Bosphorus strait in , Turkey, thus connecting and .

Bridge
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The Fatih Sultan Mehmet Bridge, also known as the Second Bosphorus Bridge, is a bridge in , spanning the Bosphorus strait. When completed in 1988, it was the 5th-longest suspension bridge span in the world.

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is a vast complex of former imperial Ottoman pavilions and villas in , , , built in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was used as a residence by the sultan and his court in the late 19th century.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include European Bosphorus and New City.

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The is the area of along the banks of the channel of the same name that connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, and separates Europe from Asia.

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Istanbul's is a modern district north of . Its neighbourhoods of Elmadağ, Nişantaşı, Kurtuluş and Şişli were built up in the early 20th century, then more recently appeared the business district between Mecidiyeköy and Levent-Maslak.

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is a very large city of fantastic history, culture and beauty. Called Byzantium in ancient times, the city's name was changed to Constantinople in 324 CE when it was rebuilt by the first Christian Roman Emperor, Constantine.

Istanbul

Latitude
41.0707° or 41° 4′ 15″ north
Longitude
29.0509° or 29° 3′ 3″ east
Population
15,700,000
Elevation
85 metres (279 feet)
Open location code
8GHF33C2+79
Open­Street­Map ID
node 12782043676
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­province
Geo­Names ID
745042
Wiki­data ID
Q534799
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Istanbul” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إسطنبول”
  • Arabic: “اسطنبول”
  • Arabic: “ولاية إسطنبول”
  • Armenian: “Ստամբուլի մարզ”
  • Asturian: “Istanbul (provincia)”
  • Asturian: “Provincia d’Estambul”
  • Asturian: “provincia d’Istanbul”
  • Azerbaijani: “İstanbul ili”
  • Bashkir: “Истамбул”
  • Bashkir: “Истанбул”
  • Bashkir: “Ыҫтамбул иле”
  • Basque: “Istanbul probintzia”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Стамбул”
  • Belarusian: “Стамбул”
  • Bosnian: “Istanbul”
  • Breton: “Istanbul”
  • Breton: “İstanbul”
  • Bulgarian: “Истанбул”
  • Catalan: “província d’Istanbul”
  • Catalan: “Província d’Istanbul”
  • Catalan: “província turca”
  • Catalan: “TR100”
  • Cebuano: “İstanbul (lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “İstanbul”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای ئەستەمبوڵ”
  • Chinese: “Istanbul”
  • Chinese: “伊斯坦堡省”
  • Chinese: “伊斯坦布尔”
  • Chinese: “伊斯坦布尔省”
  • Chuvash: “Стамбул”
  • Crimean Tatar: “İstanbul vilâyeti”
  • Croatian: “Istanbul (pokrajina)”
  • Croatian: “Istanbul”
  • Czech: “Istanbul”
  • Czech: “Istanbulská provincie”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Estamol”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Wılayetê Estanboli”
  • Dutch: “Istanboel”
  • Dutch: “Istanbul”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco İstanbul”
  • Estonian: “İstanbuli provints”
  • Fiji Hindi: “İstanbul Praant”
  • Finnish: “İstanbulin maakunta”
  • French: “Istanbul”
  • Galician: “provincia de Istambul”
  • Galician: “provincia de Istanbul”
  • Georgian: “სტამბოლი”
  • Georgian: “სტამბოლის პროვინცია”
  • German: “Istanbul”
  • German: “İstanbul”
  • Greek: “Επαρχία Κωνσταντινούπολης”
  • Greek: “Ισταμπούλ”
  • Greek: “Κωνσταντινούπολη”
  • Hebrew: “איסטנבול”
  • Hindi: “इस्तांबुल प्रांत”
  • Hungarian: “İstanbul”
  • Ido: “Provinco Istanbul”
  • Inari Sami: “Istanbul eennâmkodde”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi İstanbul”
  • Inupiaq: “İstanbul”
  • Irish: “Cúige Iostanbúl”
  • Irish: “Iostanbúl”
  • Italian: “provincia di Istanbul”
  • Italian: “Provincia di Istanbul”
  • Japanese: “イスタンブール”
  • Japanese: “イスタンブール県”
  • Javanese: “Provinsi İstanbul”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Intara y’Istanbul”
  • Kirghiz: “Стамбул”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Истанбул ладор”
  • Korean: “이스탄불”
  • Korean: “이스탄불주”
  • Kurdish: “Stembol”
  • Ladino: “Estambol”
  • Ladino: “Istanbul”
  • Latin: “Constantinopolis”
  • Latvian: “Stambulas ils”
  • Lithuanian: “Stambulo provincija”
  • Macedonian: “Истанбул”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Istanbul”
  • Maltese: “Provinċja ta‘ Istanbul”
  • Marathi: “इस्तंबूल प्रांत”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Istanbul”
  • Mingrelian: “სტამბოლიშ პროვინცია”
  • Northern Frisian: “Istanbul (Prowins)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Istanbul”
  • Northern Luri: “استامبول”
  • Northern Sami: “Istanbul eanangoddi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Istanbul”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “İstanbul”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Provinsen İstanbul”
  • Norwegian: “Istanbul”
  • Norwegian: “İstanbul”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܝܣܛܢܒܘܠ”
  • Ossetian: “Стамбул”
  • Panjabi: “ਇਸਤਾਂਬੁਲ ਸੂਬਾ”
  • Persian: “استان استانبول”
  • Polish: “Stambuł”
  • Portuguese: “Istambul”
  • Romanian: “Istanbul”
  • Romanian: “Provincia Istanbul”
  • Russian: “Стамбул”
  • Scots: “Istanbul Province”
  • Serbian: “Истанбулски вилајет”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Istanbul”
  • Slovak: “Istanbul”
  • Slovenian: “İstanbul”
  • Slovenian: “provinca Carigrad”
  • Slovenian: “provinca Istanbul”
  • Slovenian: “TR100”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ایستانبول اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Estambul”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Estambul”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Istanbul”
  • Swedish: “İstanbul”
  • Tagalog: “İstanbul Province”
  • Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Istanbul”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Истанбул”
  • Tatar: “Истанбул”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดอิสตันบูล”
  • Turkish: “İstanbul”
  • Turkmen: “Stambul”
  • Uighur: “ئىستانبۇل ۋىلايىتى”
  • Ukrainian: “Стамбул”
  • Urdu: “استنبول صوبہ”
  • Urdu: “صوبہ استنبول”
  • Uzbek: “Istanbul”
  • Vietnamese: “Istanbul”
  • Volapük: “Stambuliän”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Istanbul”
  • Welsh: “Talaith Istanbul”
  • Western Armenian: “Պոլիս”
  • Western Mari: “Стамбул”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ استنبول”
  • Wu Chinese: “伊斯坦布尔省”
  • Yue Chinese: “伊斯坦堡省”
  • “Istanbul”
  • “ma tomo Itanpu”
  • “TR-34”
  • “TU34”

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