Akşehir
Akşehir is a city in the Lakes District of Mediterranean Turkey, administratively part of Konya Province. With a population just under 94,000 in 2022, it's best known for a fictional resident, Nasreddin Hoca.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Nedim Ardoğa, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 94,200 residents
- Description: district in Konya Province, Turkey
- Also known as: “Akschehr”, “Akshehir”, “Akshehr”, and “Philomêlion”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Grand Mosque of Akşehir and Batı Cephesi Karargahı Museum.
Grand Mosque of Akşehir
Mosque
Photo: Nedim Ardoğa, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Akşehir Grand Mosque is a historical mosque in Akşehir, Turkey.
Akşehir
- Category: locality
- Location: Konya Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.3589° or 38° 21′ 32″ northLongitude
31.4202° or 31° 25′ 13″ eastPopulation
94,200Elevation
1,033 metres (3,389 feet)United Nations Location Code
TR AHROpen location code
8GCH9C5C+G3OpenStreetMap ID
node 142157546OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
Discover Akşehir from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Mari—“Akşehir” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “آق شهر”
- Armenian: “Ակշեհիր”
- Asturian: “Akşehir (distritu)”
- Asturian: “Akşehir”
- Azerbaijani: “Akşehir”
- Belarusian: “Акшэхір”
- Bulgarian: “Акшеир”
- Bulgarian: “Акшехир”
- Bulgarian: “Ахшеир”
- Bulgarian: “Ахшехир”
- Catalan: “Ak Shehir”
- Catalan: “Ak Shehr”
- Catalan: “Aksehir”
- Catalan: “Akşehir”
- Catalan: “Akshehir”
- Cebuano: “Akşehir”
- Chechen: “АкшехӀир”
- Chinese: “Akşehir”
- Chinese: “阿克謝希爾”
- Chinese: “阿克谢希尔”
- Czech: “Akşehir”
- Czech: “Akshehir”
- Danish: “Akşehir”
- Dimli (individual language): “Akşehir”
- Dutch: “Akşehir”
- Dutch: “Philomelium”
- Egyptian Arabic: “آق شهر”
- French: “Aksehir”
- French: “Akşehir”
- French: “Philomelion”
- Gagauz: “Akşehir”
- Georgian: “აქშეჰირი”
- German: “Aksehir”
- German: “Akşehir”
- German: “Akshehir”
- Gilaki: “آقشهر”
- Greek: “Ακσεχίρ”
- Greek: “Φιλομήλιον”
- Hebrew: “אקשהיר”
- Irish: “Akşehir”
- Italian: “Akşehir”
- Japanese: “アクシェヒル”
- Japanese: “アクシュヒル”
- Kazakh: “Ақшаһар”
- Kurdish: “Akşehir”
- Latin: “Philomelium”
- Macedonian: “Акшехир”
- Malay: “Akşehir”
- Mazanderani: “آقشهر”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Akşehir”
- Minangkabau: “Akşehir”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Akşehir”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Philomelion”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aksehir”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Akşehir”
- Norwegian: “Akşehir”
- Persian: “آق شهر”
- Persian: “آقشهر”
- Persian: “اق شهر”
- Persian: “اقشهر”
- Polish: “Aksehir”
- Polish: “Akşehir”
- Portuguese: “Ak-Shehr”
- Portuguese: “Aksehir”
- Portuguese: “Akşehir”
- Portuguese: “Filomélio”
- Portuguese: “Filomélion”
- Portuguese: “Philomelion”
- Portuguese: “Philomelium”
- Pushto: “اکشيهر”
- Romanian: “Akşehir”
- Romanian: “Akșehir”
- Russian: “Акшехир”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Akşehir”
- Serbian: “Акшехир”
- South Azerbaijani: “آغ شهر”
- Spanish: “Akşehir”
- Swahili: “Akşehir”
- Swedish: “Aksehir”
- Swedish: “Akşehir”
- Swedish: “Akshehir”
- Swedish: “Philomelium”
- Tajik: “Оқшаҳр”
- Turkish: “Akşehir”
- Ukrainian: “Акшехір”
- Urdu: “آق شہر”
- Uzbek: “Akshehir”
- Vietnamese: “Akşehir”
- Western Mari: “Акшехир”
- “Akşehir”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Akşehir”. Photo: Nedim Ardoğa, CC BY-SA 4.0.