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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  • City with 5,860,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 850 metres (2,789 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code ANK
  • Description: capital of Turkey
  • Also known as
    “Anguriyah”
    “Ankura”
    “Ankyra”
    “Engüri”
Photo: Korkut Tas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Hamdan Qarmat, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Museum of Anatolian Civilizations and Anıtkabir.

Museum
Photo: JoJan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is located…

Monument
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is a complex located in the district…

Museum
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
The is dedicated to the cultures of Turkic civilizations.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Çankaya District and Altındağ.

Town
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
Çankaya is a municipality and district of , Turkey.

Town
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.
is a municipality and a metropolitan district of , .

Suburb
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is the city center of in the municipality and district of , .

Ankara

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Latitude
39.9208° or 39° 55′ 15″ north
Longitude
32.8541° or 32° 51′ 15″ east
UN/LOCODE
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”
  • Adyghe: “Ӏэнкъэрэ”
  • 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: “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: “Ankara”
  • Georgian: “ანკარა”
  • German: “Ankara”
  • Gilaki: “آنکارا”
  • Greek: “Άγκυρα (Ankyra)”
  • Greek: “Άγκυρα”
  • Gujarati: “અંકારા”
  • Haitian: “Ankara”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ankara”
  • Hausa: “Ankara”
  • Hawaiian: “Ankara”
  • Hebrew: “אנקרה”
  • Hindi: “अंकारा”
  • 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”
  • Magahi: “अङ्कारा”
  • 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”
  • Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): “آنقره”
  • 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: “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”
  • Tumbuka: “Ankara”
  • 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: “Ankara”
  • Western Armenian: “Անգարա”
  • Western Armenian: “Անկիւրիա” (historical)
  • Western Armenian: “Էնկիւրիւ” (historical)
  • 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”
  • “ma tomo Ankala”

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