Turkey
Sakarya Province
Sapanca İlçesi

Balkaya

Balkaya is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of , , . Its population is 683. It is located about 70 mi southeast of , and about 5 mi south of .
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  • Type: Suburb with 1,170 residents
  • Description: mahalle (administrative quarter) in Sapanca, Sakarya, northwestern Turkey
  • Also known as: “Balkaya, Sapanca”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sapanca railway station and File.

Railway station
Photo: Kurmanbek, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sapanca station is a railway station along the Istanbul-Ankara railway in the town of , . It is serviced by the Istanbul-Arifiye limited-stop regional train, the Ada Express. is situated 3½ km northeast of Balkaya.

Supermarket
is a Turkish retail company founded in 2015, owned by Bim. As of 2025, the company operates 262 supermarkets in 32 provinces in . is situated 3½ km northeast of Balkaya.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sapanca.

Town
Photo: BERAT oyunda, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 173 km2, and its population is 46,847. It lies on the south bank of . is situated 3½ km north of Balkaya.

Balkaya

Latitude
40.66349° or 40° 39′ 49″ north
Longitude
30.25252° or 30° 15′ 9″ east
Population
1,170
Elevation
291 metres (955 feet)
Open location code
8GGGM773+92
Open­Street­Map ID
node 8245187790
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
751121
Wiki­data ID
Q4851119
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In Other Languages

From Chechen to Yoruba—“Balkaya” goes by many names.
  • Chechen: “Балкайа”
  • Dutch: “Balkaya”
  • German: “Balkaya”
  • Irish: “Balkaya”
  • Malay: “Balkaya, Sapanca”
  • Malay: “Balkaya”
  • Tatar: “Балкая”
  • Turkish: “Balkaya, Sapanca”
  • Turkish: “Balkaya”
  • Uzbek: “Balkaya”
  • Vietnamese: “Balkaya, Sapanca”
  • Vietnamese: “Balkaya”
  • Yoruba: “Balkaya”
  • “Balkaya”

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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 “Balkaya”. Photo: A.Savin, FAL.