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Konya Province
Karatay

Karatay

Karatay is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 2,832 km and will be able to produce 26 GWh of electricity annually.
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  • Type: Town with 324,000 residents
  • Description: district of Konya, central Turkey
  • Also known as: “Karatay district” and “Karatay, Konya”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mevlana Museum and Selimiye Mosque.

Museum
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The Mevlâna Museum, in , Turkey, started life as the dervish lodge of the Mevlevi order, better known as the whirling dervishes. It houses the mausoleum of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, a Persian Sufi mystic.

Mosque
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is a 16th-century Ottoman mosque in , .

Mosque
Photo: Nedim Ardoğa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is an Ottoman mosque in , . It is well known for the columned balcony of its minaret, an architectural feature rarely seen in Turkish mosques.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Meram and Konya.

Town
is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 1,822 km2, and its population is 348,325. is one of the central districts of , along with the districts of Karatay and .

Photo: Emadnemati, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a city in in Turkey, known as the city of "whirling dervishes" and for its outstanding Seljuk architecture. In 2021 metropolis had a population of 2,277,017, the sixth largest in Turkey, but the area of most interest is compact.

Town
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is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 1,931 km2, and its population is 690,667. is one of the central districts of , along with the districts of Karatay and .

Karatay

Latitude
37.87104° or 37° 52′ 16″ north
Longitude
32.50305° or 32° 30′ 11″ east
Population
324,000
Elevation
1,011 metres (3,317 feet)
Open location code
8G9JVGC3+C6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 259669692
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6692058
Wiki­data ID
Q3123558
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Mari—“Karatay” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “قرتاي”
  • Arabic: “قَرَتَاي”
  • Arabic: “قره تاي”
  • Asturian: “Karatay (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Karatay”
  • Bulgarian: “Каратай”
  • Chechen: “Каратай (Туркойчоь)”
  • Chechen: “Каратай”
  • Chinese: “Karatay”
  • Chinese: “卡拉泰”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Karatay, Konya”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Karatay”
  • Dutch: “Karatay”
  • French: “Karatay”
  • German: “Karatay”
  • Greek: “Καραταί”
  • Irish: “Karatay”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Karatay”
  • Kurdish: “Karatay”
  • Malay: “Karatay, Konya”
  • Malay: “Karatay”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Karatay”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Karatay”
  • Norwegian: “Karatay”
  • Persian: “قره‌تای، قونیه”
  • Persian: “قره‌تای”
  • Serbian: “Каратај”
  • Spanish: “Karatay”
  • Swahili: “Karatay, Konya”
  • Swahili: “Karatay”
  • Tatar: “Каратай”
  • Turkish: “Karatay, Konya”
  • Turkish: “Karatay”
  • Urdu: “قرہ تائے، قونیہ”
  • Urdu: “قرہ تائے”
  • Vietnamese: “Karatay”
  • Western Mari: “Каратай”
  • “Karatay ilçesi”

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