Çankaya District

Çankaya is a municipality and district of , Turkey. Its area is 483 km2, and its population is 942,553. It is home to many government buildings, including the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, as well as nearly all foreign embassies to Turkey.
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  • Type: Town with 947,000 residents
  • Description: district of Ankara, west-central Turkey
  • Also known as: “Çankaya”

Places of Interest

Highlights include National Library of Turkey and Presidency of the Republic of Turkey.

Library
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The is the national library of , located in . It was founded on April 15, 1946.

Garden
Photo: Gargarapalvin, CC BY 4.0.
The Çankaya Mansion is the official residence of the vice president of Turkey and previously the official residence of the president of Turkey from 1923 to 2014.

Monument
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is a mausoleum complex located in the Çankaya district of , Turkey. It serves as the resting place of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder and first President of the Turkish Republic.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ankara and Mamak.

Photo: Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0.
is the capital of , central within the country on the plateau of . It's a sprawling modern place around an ancient citadel, and in 2022 had a population of almost 5.2 million, with a further 600,000 living in the wider metropolis.

Town
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
is a municipality and metropolitan district of , . Its area is 321 km2, and its population is 687,535. It is part of the city of . is situated 7 km northeast of Çankaya District.

Town
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is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 123 km2, and its population is 413,994. It covers the northeastern part of the city of . Its elevation is 900 m. is situated 8 km north of Çankaya District.

Çankaya District

Latitude
39.8853° or 39° 53′ 7″ north
Longitude
32.8555° or 32° 51′ 20″ east
Population
947,000
Elevation
850 metres (2,789 feet)
United Nations Location Code
TR ZCA
Open location code
8GFJVVP4+45
Open­Street­Map ID
node 958038131
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6955677
Wiki­data ID
Q1020646
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Çankaya District” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تشانكايا”
  • Arabic: “جاك قيا”
  • Arabic: “جان قيا”
  • Arabic: “جنقايا”
  • Arabic: “جنقاية”
  • Arabic: “جَنْقَيَاءُ”
  • Arabic: “جنكايا”
  • Arabic: “قضاء جنقياء”
  • Armenian: “Չանկայա”
  • Asturian: “Çankaya (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Çankaya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Çankaya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Çanqaya”
  • Belarusian: “Чанкая”
  • Bengali: “চাঙ্কায়া”
  • Catalan: “Çankaya”
  • Cebuano: “Çankaya”
  • Chechen: “Чанкайа”
  • Chinese: “Çankaya”
  • Chinese: “恰卡亞”
  • Chinese: “昌卡亚”
  • Chinese: “燦卡亞”
  • Chinese: “詹卡亚”
  • Chinese: “詹卡亞”
  • Chinese: “钱卡亚”
  • Chinese: “錢卡亞”
  • Danish: “Çankaya”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Çankaya”
  • Dutch: “Çankaya”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شقة جانكايا”
  • Esperanto: “Çankaya”
  • Faroese: “Çankaya”
  • Finnish: “Çankaya”
  • French: “Çankaya”
  • Georgian: “ჩანქაია”
  • German: “Cankaya”
  • German: “Çankaya”
  • Greek: “Τσανκαγιά”
  • Greek: “Τσάνκαγια”
  • Hebrew: “קאנקיה”
  • Hungarian: “Çankaya”
  • Indonesian: “Çankaya, Ankara”
  • Indonesian: “Çankaya”
  • Irish: “Çankaya”
  • Japanese: “チャンカヤ”
  • Japanese: “チャンカヤ区”
  • Kalaallisut: “Çankaya”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Akarere ka Çankaya”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Çankaya”
  • Korean: “찬카야”
  • Kurdish: “Çankaya”
  • Lak: “Чанкъая”
  • Malay: “Çankaya, Ankara”
  • Malay: “Çankaya”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Çankaya”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Çankaya”
  • Norwegian: “Çankaya”
  • Persian: “چانکایا، آنکارا”
  • Portuguese: “Çankaya”
  • Romanian: “Çankaya”
  • Russian: “Чанкая (район Анкары)”
  • Russian: “Чанкая”
  • Scots: “Çankaya, Ankara”
  • Serbian: “Чанкаја”
  • Slovenian: “Çankaya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “چانکایا”
  • Spanish: “Çankaya”
  • Swahili: “Çankaya, Ankara”
  • Swahili: “Çankaya”
  • Swedish: “Çankaya”
  • Tatar: “Чанкая”
  • Turkish: “Çankaya”
  • Ukrainian: “Чанкая”
  • Urdu: “چانکایا، انقرہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Çankaya, Ankara”
  • Western Mari: “Чанкая”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع چانکایا”
  • “Çankaya”
  • “Çankaya ilçesi”

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