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Bağcılar

Bağcılar

Bağcılar is a municipality and district of . Its area is 23 km2, and its population is 740,069. It is located on the side of Istanbul, near the city centre, just north of , between the two major ring roads, TEM and D100.
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  • Type: Town with 752,000 residents
  • Description: district of Istanbul
  • Also known as: “Bagcilar”
  • Historically known as: “Çiftburgaz” and “Çıfıtburgaz”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Esenler Coach Terminal and sea life.

Bus station
Photo: Fragwürdig, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, Esenler Terminal, Grand Istanbul Coach Terminal is the central and largest bus terminus for intercity bus service in .

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The TurkuaZoo also called Sealife is a public aquarium located in in , . It was the first public aquarium in Turkey, and is one of the largest aquariums in Europe.

Library
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Rami Barracks were an Ottoman and later Turkish Army barracks located in the Eyüp district on the part of , Turkey. They were built in the 1770s in the Ottoman Empire era.As of January 13, 2023, following comprehensive restoration work, the building has been re-opened and now functions as one of Istanbul’s largest public libraries. is situated 5 km east of Bağcılar.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Western Suburbs and Galata.

Photo: Nevit, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The are a collection of neighbourhoods, lying west of the Old City walls and sprawling across the Thracian peninsula.

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is just north, across the Golden Horn, from the Old City of . Further north is Beyoğlu: İstiklal Avenue is its thoroughfare, and adjoining Taksim Square is considered the heart of the city — if it were sensible to speak of a "downtown" for multicentric Istanbul, that would most likely refer to this area.

Town
is a developing working class municipality and district of , on its side. Its area is 12 km2, and its population is 495,998. and are west, Sultangazi is north and Eyüp is south and east of the district. is situated 5 km northeast of Bağcılar.

Bağcılar

Latitude
41.0345° or 41° 2′ 4″ north
Longitude
28.8568° or 28° 51′ 24″ east
Population
752,000
Elevation
105 metres (344 feet)
United Nations Location Code
TR BAG
Open location code
8GHC2VM4+RP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27426565
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
751324
Wiki­data ID
Q746516
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Bağcılar” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بَاجِيلَر”
  • Arabic: “باغجيلر”
  • Arabic: “بغجيلر”
  • Arabic: “بَغْجِيلَر”
  • Armenian: “Բաղջըլար”
  • Asturian: “Bağcılar (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Bağcılar”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bağçılar”
  • Bashkir: “Бағсылар”
  • Bulgarian: “Багджълар”
  • Catalan: “Bağcılar”
  • Chechen: “БагӀджилар”
  • Chinese: “Bağcılar”
  • Chinese: “巴哲拉尔”
  • Chinese: “巴哲拉爾”
  • Chinese: “巴格希勒”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bağcılar”
  • Dutch: “Bağcılar”
  • French: “Bağcılar”
  • Georgian: “ბაღჯილარი”
  • German: “Bağcılar”
  • Greek: “Μπάγτζιλαρ”
  • Hebrew: “באג’ילאר”
  • Hungarian: “Bağcılar”
  • Indonesian: “Bağcılar”
  • Irish: “Bağcılar”
  • Italian: “Bağcilar”
  • Italian: “Bağcılar”
  • Japanese: “バージュラル”
  • Japanese: “バシクラー”
  • Kurdish: “Bağcılar”
  • Latvian: “Bādžilaras rajons”
  • Malay: “Bağcılar”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bağcılar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bağcılar”
  • Norwegian: “Bağcılar”
  • Persian: “باغجی‌لار”
  • Persian: “باغچیلار”
  • Portuguese: “Bağcılar”
  • Russian: “Багджылар”
  • Serbian: “Багџилар”
  • South Azerbaijani: “باغچی‌لار”
  • Spanish: “Bağcılar”
  • Spanish: “Distrito de Bağcılar”
  • Swahili: “Bağcılar”
  • Tatar: “Багҗылар”
  • Tatar: “Багчылар”
  • Turkish: “Bağcılar”
  • Ukrainian: “Багджилар”
  • Urdu: “باغجی لار”
  • Urdu: “باغجیلار”
  • Vietnamese: “Bağcılar”
  • Western Mari: “Багджылар”
  • Western Panjabi: “باغجلار”
  • “Bağcılar”
  • “Bağcılar ilçesi”

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