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Şile

Şile is a municipality and district of . Its area is 800 km2, and its population is 43,464. Bordering Şile is the province of to the east and south, and Istanbul districts of to the south, to the southwest, and to the west.
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  • Type: Town with 34,200 residents
  • Description: district of İstanbul, northwestern Turkey
  • Also known as: “Şili” and “Şilli”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Şile Lighthouse and Şile Castle.

Lighthouse
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Şile Feneri, a historical lighthouse still in use, is located on the western coast in the northeast town Şile of , .

Castle
Photo: Justinianus, CC BY-SA 4.0.
or Ocaklı Ada Castle is a castle located on Ocaklı Island in the Şile district of . It was criticized for its appearance after the restoration of 2015 because it looked like SpongeBob SquarePants.

Şile

Latitude
41.1744° or 41° 10′ 28″ north
Longitude
29.6125° or 29° 36′ 45″ east
Population
34,200
Elevation
110 metres (361 feet)
Open location code
8GHF5JF7+Q2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 247999748
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
8521537
Wiki­data ID
Q241631
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Satellite Map

Discover Şile from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Şile” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “شيلة”
  • Arabic: “قضاء شيلة”
  • Armenian: “Շիլե”
  • Asturian: “Şile (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Şile”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şile ilçəsi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şilə”
  • Bashkir: “Шилә”
  • Catalan: “Şile”
  • Cebuano: “Şile (distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Şile”
  • Chechen: “Шиле”
  • Chinese: “Şile”
  • Chinese: “希莱”
  • Chinese: “希萊”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Şile”
  • Dutch: “Şile”
  • Esperanto: “Şile”
  • French: “Şile”
  • Georgian: “შილე”
  • German: “Şile”
  • Greek: “Χηλή”
  • Hungarian: “Şile”
  • Irish: “Şile”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Şile”
  • Japanese: “シレ”
  • Kazakh: “Сіле”
  • Kirghiz: “Шиле”
  • Kurdish: “Şile, Stembol”
  • Latvian: “Šiles rajons”
  • Lithuanian: “Sile”
  • Malay: “Şile”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Şile”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Şile”
  • Norwegian: “Şile”
  • Persian: “شیله (استانبول)”
  • Persian: “شیله”
  • Polish: “Şile”
  • Portuguese: “Şile”
  • Russian: “Шиле”
  • Serbian: “Шиле”
  • South Azerbaijani: “شیله”
  • Spanish: “Şile”
  • Swahili: “Şile”
  • Swedish: “Şile”
  • Tatar: “Шилә”
  • Tatar: “Шиле”
  • Turkish: “Şile”
  • Urdu: “شیلے”
  • Vietnamese: “Şile”
  • Western Mari: “Шиле”
  • Western Panjabi: “شائل”
  • “Şile”
  • “Şile ilçesi”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Şile”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.