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Bolu Province
Bolu

Bolu

Bolu is a city in the region of Turkey, with a population of 184,682 in 2021. It's 260 km east of Istanbul and 190 km northwest of Ankara so it might make a stopover.
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Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
  • Type: City with 185,000 residents
  • Description: central district and city in Bolu Province, Turkey
  • Also known as: “Boli” and “Bolu City”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bolu Museum and Saraçhane Mosque, Bolu.

Museum
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
is a museum in Bolu, . Bolu was a city of the Bithynia kingdom in antiquity.

Mosque
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.

Mosque
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Okçular and Çayırköy.

Village
is a village in the Bolu District, , . Its population is 445.

Village
is a village in the Bolu District, , . Its population is 164.

Village
is a village in the Bolu District of , . Its population is 684. It is situated 5 km south of Bolu and to the north of Köroğlu Mountains.

Bolu

Latitude
40.7333° or 40° 43′ 60″ north
Longitude
31.611° or 31° 36′ 40″ east
Population
185,000
Elevation
733 metres (2,405 feet)
United Nations Location Code
TR BOL
Open location code
8GGHPJM6+8C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3479054194
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
750516
Wiki­data ID
Q200951
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Bolu” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بولو”
  • Armenian: “Բոլու”
  • Asturian: “Bolu (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Bolu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bolu”
  • Basque: “Bolu”
  • Belarusian: “Балу”
  • Bengali: “বুলো”
  • Bulgarian: “Болу”
  • Catalan: “Bolu”
  • Catalan: “Claudiopolis”
  • Cebuano: “Bolu (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Bolu”
  • Central Kurdish: “بۆڵو”
  • Chechen: “Болу”
  • Chinese: “Bolu”
  • Chinese: “博卢”
  • Chinese: “博盧”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Bolu”
  • Czech: “Bolu”
  • Danish: “Bolu”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bolu”
  • Dutch: “Bolu”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بولو”
  • Esperanto: “Bolu”
  • Finnish: “Bolu”
  • French: “Bolu”
  • Gagauz: “Bolu”
  • Georgian: “ბოლუ”
  • German: “Bolu”
  • Gilaki: “بؤلي”
  • Greek: “Βιθύνιον”
  • Greek: “Μπολού”
  • Gujarati: “બોલુ”
  • Hebrew: “בולו”
  • Hindi: “बोलू”
  • Hungarian: “Bolu”
  • Indonesian: “Bolu”
  • Irish: “Bolu”
  • Italian: “Bolu”
  • Japanese: “ボル”
  • Kannada: “ಬೋಲು”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Akarere ka Bolu”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Bolu”
  • Korean: “볼루”
  • Latvian: “Bolu”
  • Lithuanian: “Bolu”
  • Malay: “Bolu”
  • Marathi: “बोलू”
  • Mazanderani: “بولو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bolu”
  • Minangkabau: “Bolu”
  • Moksha: “Болу”
  • Nauru: “Bolu”
  • Northern Luri: “بولی”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bolu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bolu”
  • Norwegian: “Bolu”
  • Ossetian: “Болу”
  • Persian: “بولو”
  • Persian: “بولی”
  • Polish: “Bolu”
  • Portuguese: “Adriana”
  • Portuguese: “Bithynium”
  • Portuguese: “Bitínio”
  • Portuguese: “Bolu”
  • Portuguese: “Claudiópolis”
  • Portuguese: “Hadriana”
  • Portuguese: “Vitínio”
  • Romanian: “Bolu”
  • Russian: “Болу”
  • Scots: “Bolu”
  • Serbian: “Bolu”
  • Serbian: “Болу”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bolu”
  • Sinhala: “බොලු”
  • Slovak: “Bolu”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بولی”
  • Spanish: “Bithynium”
  • Spanish: “Bolu”
  • Swahili: “Bolu”
  • Swahili: “Jimbo la Bolu”
  • Swedish: “Bolu”
  • Tajik: “Болу”
  • Talysh: “Bolu”
  • Tamil: “பாலு”
  • Tatar: “Болу”
  • Telugu: “బోలు”
  • Thai: “โบลู”
  • Turkish: “Bolu Merkez”
  • Turkish: “Bolu”
  • Udmurt: “Болу”
  • Ukrainian: “Болу”
  • Urdu: “بولو”
  • Uzbek: “Bolu shahri (Turkiya)”
  • Uzbek: “Bolu shahri”
  • Venetian: “Bolu”
  • Vietnamese: “Bolu”
  • Volapük: “Bolu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bolu”
  • Western Mari: “Болу”
  • Western Panjabi: “بولو”
  • Wu Chinese: “博卢 (土耳其)”
  • Wu Chinese: “博卢（土耳其）”
  • “Bolu”

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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 “Bolu”. Photo: A.Savin, FAL.