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Turkey
Ankara Province

Ankara

Ankara 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.
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  • Type: City with 5,860,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Turkey
  • Also known as: “Ancyra”, “Angora”, “Anguriyah”, “Ankura”, “Ankyra”, and “Engüri”
Photo: Korkut Tas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Hamdan Qarmat, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Embassy of Austria and Museum of Anatolian Civilizations.

Government office
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is a government office.

Museum
Photo: JoJan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is located on the south side of in the Atpazarı area in Ankara, Turkey. It consists of the old Ottoman Mahmut Paşa bazaar storage building, and the Kurşunlu Han.

Monument
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is a mausoleum complex located in the Çankaya district of Ankara, Turkey. It serves as the resting place of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder and first President of the Turkish Republic.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Çankaya District and Altındağ.

Town
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
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.

Town
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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 Ankara. Its elevation is 900 m.

Suburb
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is the city center of in the municipality and district of , . Its population is 1,311. It is named after the Derneği whose former headquarters was located at the .

Ankara

Latitude
39.9208° or 39° 55′ 15″ north
Longitude
32.8541° or 32° 51′ 15″ east
Population
5,860,000
Elevation
850 metres (2,789 feet)
IATA airport code
ANK
United Nations Location Code
TR ANK
Open location code
8GFJWVC3+8J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25869410
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
323786
Wiki­data ID
Q3640
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Ankara” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Анкара”
  • Achinese: “Ankara”
  • Adyghe: “Анкара”
  • Afrikaans: “Ankara”
  • Albanian: “Ankara”
  • Albanian: “Ankaraja”
  • Amharic: “አንካራ”
  • Arabic: “أنقرة”
  • Arabic: “أَنْقَرَة”
  • Arabic: “أَنْقِرَة”
  • Aragonese: “Ankara”
  • Armenian: “Անգորա”
  • Armenian: “Անկարա”
  • Armenian: “Անկյուրա”
  • Arpitan: “Ankara”
  • Asturian: “Ancara”
  • Asturian: “Ankara”
  • Avaric: “Анкара”
  • Aymara: “Ankara”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ankara”
  • Balinese: “Ankara”
  • Bambara: “Ankara”
  • Banjar: “Angkara”
  • Bashkir: “Анҡара”
  • Basque: “Ankara”
  • Belarusian: “Анкара”
  • Bengali: “আংকারা”
  • Bengali: “আঙ্কারা”
  • Betawi: “Angkarah”
  • Bosnian: “Ankara”
  • Breton: “Ankara”
  • Bulgarian: “Анкара”
  • Burmese: “အန်ကာရာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Ancyra”
  • Catalan: “Ankara”
  • Cebuano: “Ankara”
  • Central Bikol: “Ankara”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەنقەرە”
  • Chamorro: “Ankara”
  • Chavacano: “Ankara”
  • Chechen: “Анкара”
  • Chinese: “Ankara”
  • Chinese: “安卡拉”
  • Church Slavic: “Анкара”
  • Church Slavic: “Анкѷра”
  • Chuvash: “Анкара”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Ankara”
  • Croatian: “Ankara”
  • Czech: “Ankara”
  • Danish: “Ankara”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Anqara”
  • Dutch: “Ankara”
  • Eastern Mari: “Анкара”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “انقره”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “انكارا”
  • Erzya: “Анкара ош”
  • Esperanto: “Ankara”
  • Esperanto: “Ankaro”
  • Estonian: “Ankara”
  • Farefare: “Accra”
  • Faroese: “Ankara”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Ankara”
  • Fijian: “Ankara”
  • Finnish: “Ankara”
  • French: “Ankara”
  • Friulian: “Ankara”
  • Gagauz: “Ankara”
  • Galician: “Ancara”
  • Galician: “Angora”
  • Galician: “Ankara”
  • Georgian: “ანკარა”
  • German: “Angora”
  • German: “Ankara”
  • Gilaki: “آنکارا”
  • Greek: “Άγκυρα (Ankyra)”
  • Greek: “Άγκυρα”
  • Gujarati: “અંકારા”
  • Haitian: “Ankara”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ankara”
  • Hausa: “Ankara”
  • Hawaiian: “Ankara”
  • Hebrew: “אנקרה”
  • Hindi: “अंकारा, तुर्की”
  • Hindi: “अंकारा”
  • Hungarian: “Angora”
  • Hungarian: “Ankara”
  • Iban: “Ankara”
  • Icelandic: “Ankara”
  • Ido: “Ankara”
  • Iloko: “Ankara”
  • Inari Sami: “Ankara”
  • Indonesian: “Ankara”
  • Interlingua: “Ankara”
  • Interlingue: “Ancara”
  • Interlingue: “Ankara”
  • Inupiaq: “Ankara”
  • Irish: “Ankara”
  • Italian: “Ankara”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Ankara”
  • Japanese: “アンカラ”
  • Japanese: “アンキュラ”
  • Javanese: “Ankara”
  • Kabardian: “Анкара”
  • Kabardian: “Ӏэнкъэрэкъалэ”
  • Kabyle: “Ankara”
  • Kabyle: “Anqara”
  • Kalaallisut: “Ankara”
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: “Ankara”
  • Kannada: “ಅಂಕರ‍”
  • Kannada: “ಅಂಕಾರಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Ankara”
  • Kashmiri: “انکارا”
  • Kashubian: “Ankara”
  • Kazakh: “Анкара”
  • Kazakh: “Анқара”
  • Kikuyu: “Ankara”
  • Kildin Sami: “Анкара”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Ankara”
  • Kirghiz: “Aнкapа”
  • Kirghiz: “Анкара”
  • Komering: “Ankara”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Анкара”
  • Komi: “Анкара”
  • Korean: “앙까라”
  • Korean: “앙카라”
  • Kurdish: “Enqere”
  • Ladino: “Ankara”
  • Lak: “Анкъара”
  • Lao: “ອັງກາລາ”
  • Latin: “Ancyra”
  • Latvian: “Ankara”
  • Ligurian: “Ankara”
  • Limburgan: “Ankara”
  • Lingala: “Ankara”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Ancara”
  • Lithuanian: “Ankara”
  • Livvi: “Ankara”
  • Lombard: “Ankara”
  • Low German: “Ankara”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Ankara”
  • Lule Sami: “Ankara”
  • Luxembourgish: “Ankara”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Ancara”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Ankara”
  • Macedonian: “Анкара”
  • Maithili: “अङ्कारा”
  • Malagasy: “Ankara”
  • Malay: “Ankara”
  • Malayalam: “അങ്കാറ”
  • Maltese: “Ankara”
  • Manx: “Ankara”
  • Maori: “Anakara”
  • Marathi: “अंकारा”
  • Mazanderani: “آنکارا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ăng-kā-lá”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ankara”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ankara”
  • Minangkabau: “Ankara”
  • Mingrelian: “ანკარა”
  • Moksha: “Анкара”
  • Mongolian: “Анкара хот”
  • Mongolian: “Анкара”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “أنقارا”
  • N'Ko: “ߊ߲ߞߙߊ߫”
  • Navajo: “Tséłbáí Dah Yiskʼid”
  • Nepali: “अंकारा”
  • Nepali: “अङ्कारा”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ankara”
  • Northern Luri: “آستون آنکارا”
  • Northern Sami: “Ankara”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ankara”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ankara”
  • Norwegian: “Ankara”
  • Novial: “Ankara”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ankara”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܢܩܪܐ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ancyra”
  • Oriya: “ଆଙ୍କାରା”
  • Ossetian: “Анкара”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻအန်ကာရာ”
  • Panjabi: “ਅੰਕਾਰਾ”
  • Papiamento: “Ankara”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Ankara”
  • Persian: “آنکارا”
  • Picard: “Ankara”
  • Piemontese: “Ankara”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Ankara”
  • Pite Sami: “Ankara”
  • Polish: “Ankara”
  • Portuguese: “Ancara”
  • Portuguese: “Ancira”
  • Portuguese: “Angora”
  • Portuguese: “Angorá”
  • Portuguese: “Ankara”
  • Portuguese: “Ankuwash”
  • Portuguese: “Engürü”
  • Pushto: “انقره”
  • Quechua: “Ankara”
  • Romanian: “Ancara”
  • Romanian: “Ankara”
  • Rundi: “Ankara”
  • Russia Buriat: “Анкара”
  • Russian: “Анкара”
  • Rusyn: “Анкара”
  • Sakizaya: “An-ka-la”
  • Samogitian: “Ankara”
  • Scots: “Ankara”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Ancara”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Ankara”
  • Serbian: “Ангора”
  • Serbian: “Анкара”
  • Serbian: “Анкира”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ankara”
  • Shona: “Ankara”
  • Sicilian: “Ankara”
  • Silesian: “Ankara”
  • Sindhi: “انقره”
  • Sinhala: “ඇන්කාරා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Ankara”
  • Slovak: “Ankara”
  • Slovenian: “Ankara”
  • Somali: “Ankara”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آنکارا”
  • Southern Sami: “Ankara”
  • Spanish: “Angora”
  • Spanish: “Ankara”
  • Swahili: “Ankara”
  • Swedish: “Ankara”
  • Swiss German: “Ankara”
  • Tagalog: “Ankara”
  • Tajik: “Анкара”
  • Tajik: “Анқара”
  • Talysh: “Ankara”
  • Tamil: “அங்காரா”
  • Tamil: “அன்கரா”
  • Tatar: “Әнкара”
  • Telugu: “అంకారా”
  • Tetum: “Ankara”
  • Thai: “อังการา”
  • Tibetan: “ཨན་ཀ་ར།”
  • Tibetan: “ཨན་ཁ་ར།”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Ankara”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Ankara”
  • Tumbuka: “Ankara”
  • Turkish: “Ancyra”
  • Turkish: “Ankara, Türkiye”
  • Turkish: “Ankara”
  • Turkmen: “Ankara”
  • Twi: “Ankara”
  • Udmurt: “Анкара”
  • Uighur: “Enqere”
  • Uighur: “ئەنقەرە”
  • Ukrainian: “Анкара”
  • Ume Sami: “Ankara”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Ankara”
  • Urdu: “انقرہ”
  • Uzbek: “Anqara”
  • Venetian: “Angora”
  • Veps: “Ankar”
  • Vietnamese: “Ankara”
  • Vlax Romani: “Ankara”
  • Volapük: “Ankara”
  • Võro: “Ankara”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ankara”
  • Welsh: “Ancyra”
  • Welsh: “Ankara”
  • Western Armenian: “Անգարա”
  • Western Frisian: “Ankara”
  • Western Mari: “Анкара”
  • Western Panjabi: “انقرا”
  • Western Panjabi: “انکرہ”
  • Wolof: “Ankara”
  • Wu Chinese: “安卡拉”
  • Yakut: “Анкара”
  • Yiddish: “אנקארא”
  • Yoruba: “Ankara”
  • Yue Chinese: “安卡拉”
  • Zeeuws: “Ankara”
  • Zulu: “i-Ankara”
  • “Ancara”
  • “Ancyra”
  • “Ankara”

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