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.
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
  • Type: Town with 947,000 residents
  • Description: district of Ankara, west-central Turkey
  • Also known as: Çankaya district

Places of Interest

Highlights include Apostolic Nunciature and Embassy of Japan.

Government office
The to Turkey is an ecclesiastical office of the Catholic Church in . It is a diplomatic post of the Holy See, whose representative is called the Apostolic Nuncio with the rank of an ambassador.

Government office
The in Ankara is the diplomatic mission of to . KATSUMATA Takahiko has been the current ambassador since May 2023. The embassy was opened on 4 July 1953.

Government office
is a government office.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ankara and Mamak.

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
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
  • Italian: Distretto di 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
  • Spanish: Distrito de 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 ilçesi

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