Avcılar

Avcılar is a municipality and district of . Its area is 50 km2, and its population is 452,132. It is on the side of the city, just to the west of the of the Sea of Marmara.
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  • Type: Town with 452,000 residents
  • Description: district of İstanbul, northwestern Turkey
  • Also known as: “Avcilar” and “Avcılar, Istanbul”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Istanbul Robot Museum and Ambarlı A power plant.

Museum
Photo: Cemalika, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Power station
or Istanbul Natural Gas Combined Cycle A power plant is a gas-fired power station in İstanbul Province north-western Turkey.

Fountain
Photo: Sadrettin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is situated 4½ km east of Avcılar.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Küçükçekmece and Güzelyurt.

Town
Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
, is a municipality and district of . Its area is 44 km2, and its population was 789,033 in 2024. It is 23 kilometers west of the city centre and lies next to . is situated 4½ km east of Avcılar.

Suburb
Photo: buzkozan, CC BY 3.0.
is a suburb, which is situated 6 km northwest of Avcılar.

Suburb
Photo: Mostafameraji, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a suburb, which is situated 6 km northwest of Avcılar.

Avcılar

Latitude
40.9799° or 40° 58′ 48″ north
Longitude
28.7217° or 28° 43′ 18″ east
Population
452,000
Elevation
-2 metres (-7 feet)
Open location code
8GGCXPHC+XM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2686436887
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
7732454
Wiki­data ID
Q340148
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Avcılar” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أوجيلر”
  • Arabic: “أَوْجِيلَرُ”
  • Armenian: “Ավջըլար”
  • Asturian: “Avcılar (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Avcılar”
  • Avaric: “Авджылар”
  • Azerbaijani: “Avcılar”
  • Bashkir: “Авджылар”
  • Bashkir: “Аусылар”
  • Bulgarian: “Авджълар”
  • Catalan: “Avcılar”
  • Cebuano: “Avcılar”
  • Chechen: “Авджилар”
  • Chinese: “Avcılar”
  • Chinese: “阿夫哲拉尔”
  • Chinese: “阿夫哲拉爾”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Avcılar”
  • Dutch: “Avcılar”
  • French: “Avcılar”
  • Georgian: “ავჯილარის რაიონი”
  • German: “Avcılar”
  • Greek: “Αβτζιλάρ”
  • Hungarian: “Avcılar”
  • Irish: “Avcılar”
  • Italian: “Avcılar”
  • Japanese: “アヴジュラル”
  • Japanese: “アヴシラー”
  • Japanese: “アブジュラル”
  • Kurdish: “Avcılar”
  • Latvian: “Avdžilaras rajons”
  • Malay: “Avcılar”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Avcılar”
  • Mingrelian: “ავჯილარიშ რაიონი”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Avcılar”
  • Norwegian: “Avcılar”
  • Persian: “آوجی‌لار”
  • Polish: “Avcılar”
  • Portuguese: “Avcılar”
  • Russian: “Авджылар”
  • Serbian: “Авџилар”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آوچی‌لار”
  • Spanish: “Avcılar”
  • Spanish: “Distrito de Avcılar”
  • Swahili: “Avcılar”
  • Tatar: “Авҗылар”
  • Turkish: “Avcılar”
  • Urdu: “اوجیلار، استنبول”
  • Vietnamese: “Avcılar”
  • Western Mari: “Авджылар”
  • Western Panjabi: “اوجلار”
  • “Avcılar”
  • “Avcılar ilçesi”

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