Turkey
Aksaray Province
Aksaray

Aksaray

Aksaray is a city in , 240 km southeast of Ankara and about 50 km west of Cappadocia. In 2021 the city had a population of 247,147, with another 68,000 living in the small towns and villages of Aksaray Province.
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  • Type: City with 423,000 residents
  • Description: district and city in Aksaray province, Turkey
  • Also known as: “Akserai”, “Archaleis”, “Arkhelais”, “Garsaúra”, “Gausaura”, and “Taxara”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Grand Mosque of Aksaray.

Mosque
Photo: minamie, CC BY 2.0.
The Aksaray Grand Mosque, also known as the Ulu Mosque, is the mosque located in the city center of Aksaray. It is also known as the Karamanoğlu Mosque. It was commissioned by Mehmet I of Karaman and built between 1408 and 1409.

Aksaray

Latitude
38.3705° or 38° 22′ 14″ north
Longitude
34.0269° or 34° 1′ 37″ east
Population
423,000
Elevation
976 metres (3,202 feet)
United Nations Location Code
TR ARY
Open location code
8GCP92CG+6Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26482228
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
324496
Wiki­data ID
Q182025
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Aksaray” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “آق سراي”
  • Arabic: “أقسراي”
  • Armenian: “Ակսարայ”
  • Armenian: “Աքսարայ”
  • Asturian: “Aksaray”
  • Azerbaijani: “Aksaray”
  • Basque: “Aksaray”
  • Belarusian: “Аксарай”
  • Bengali: “আকসারায়”
  • Bulgarian: “Аксарай”
  • Catalan: “Ak Saray”
  • Catalan: “Aksaray”
  • Catalan: “Arquelais”
  • Catalan: “Ortaköy”
  • Cebuano: “Aksaray (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Aksaray”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئاکسارای”
  • Chechen: “Аксарай”
  • Chinese: “Aksaray”
  • Chinese: “恩傑蘇”
  • Chinese: “阿克萨赖”
  • Chinese: “阿克薩賴”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Aksaray”
  • Czech: “Aksaray”
  • Danish: “Aksaray”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Aqserayiye”
  • Dutch: “Aksaray”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “آق سراى”
  • Esperanto: “Aksaray”
  • Finnish: “Aksaray”
  • French: “Agzikarahan”
  • French: “Aksaray”
  • Gagauz: “Aksaray”
  • Georgian: “აქსარაი”
  • German: “Aksaray”
  • Gilaki: “آق‌سرای”
  • Greek: “Ακσαράι”
  • Greek: “Ακσεράι”
  • Greek: “Άκσεράι”
  • Greek: “Αρχελαΐδα”
  • Greek: “Αρχελαΐς Καππαδοκίας”
  • Gujarati: “અક્સરાય”
  • Hebrew: “אקסראי”
  • Hindi: “अक्सराय”
  • Hindi: “अक्साराय”
  • Hungarian: “Aksaray”
  • Indonesian: “Aksaray”
  • Irish: “Aksaray”
  • Italian: “Aksaray”
  • Japanese: “アクサライ”
  • Kannada: “ಅಕ್ಸರಾಯ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Aksaray”
  • Kazakh: “Aqsaraý”
  • Kazakh: “Ақсарай, Түркия”
  • Kazakh: “Ақсарай”
  • Kazakh: “اقساراي، تۇركىييا”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Akarere k’Aksaray”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Aksaray”
  • Korean: “악사라이”
  • Lak: “Акъсарай”
  • Latvian: “Aksaraja”
  • Lithuanian: “Aksarajus”
  • Macedonian: “Аксарај”
  • Malay: “Aksaray”
  • Maltese: “Aksaray”
  • Marathi: “एकसारे”
  • Mazanderani: “آق‌سرای”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Aksaray”
  • Minangkabau: “Aksaray”
  • Moksha: “Аксарай”
  • Nauru: “Aksaray”
  • Northern Frisian: “Aksaray (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Aksaray”
  • Northern Luri: “آق‌سرای”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Aksaray”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aksaray”
  • Norwegian: “Aksaray”
  • Ossetian: “Аксарай”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਕਸਾਰਾਏ”
  • Persian: “آق‌سرای”
  • Persian: “آک سرای”
  • Persian: “آکسارای”
  • Persian: “آکسرای”
  • Persian: “آک‌سرای”
  • Persian: “اق سرای”
  • Persian: “اق‌سرای”
  • Persian: “اقصرا”
  • Persian: “اکسارای”
  • Persian: “اک‌سرای”
  • Persian: “اکسرای”
  • Polish: “Aksaray”
  • Portuguese: “Acsarai”
  • Portuguese: “Aksaray”
  • Portuguese: “Archelais”
  • Portuguese: “Archelaïs”
  • Portuguese: “Coloneia”
  • Portuguese: “Garsaura”
  • Romanian: “Aksaray”
  • Russian: “Аксарай”
  • Scots: “Aksaray”
  • Serbian: “Aksaraj”
  • Serbian: “Aksaray”
  • Serbian: “Аксарај”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Aksaray”
  • Sinhala: “ඇක්සරේ”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آغ‌سارای”
  • Spanish: “Ak Saray”
  • Spanish: “Aksaray”
  • Swahili: “Aksaray”
  • Swedish: “Aksaray”
  • Tajik: “Оқсарой”
  • Talysh: “Aksaraj”
  • Tamil: “ஆக்ஸரே”
  • Tatar: “Аксарай”
  • Telugu: “అక్సరాయి”
  • Thai: “อักซารัย”
  • Turkish: “Aksaray”
  • Udmurt: “Аксарай”
  • Ukrainian: “Аксарай”
  • Urdu: “آق سرائے”
  • Uzbek: “Aksaray”
  • Venetian: “Aksaray”
  • Vietnamese: “Aksaray”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Aksaray”
  • Western Mari: “Аксарай”
  • Western Panjabi: “آکسرے”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿克萨赖”

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