Bolu
Bolu is a city in the Western Karadeniz 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.
- Type: City with 185,000 residents
- Description: central district and city in Bolu Province, Turkey
- Also known as: “Adriana”, “Akarere ka Bolu”, “Bithynium”, “Bitínio”, “Boli”, “Bolu (distritu)”, “Bolu City”, “Bolu Merkez”, “Claudiopolis”, “Claudiópolis”, “Hadriana”, “Jimbo la Bolu”, and “Vitínio”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Bolu Museum and Saraçhane Mosque, Bolu.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Okçular and Çayırköy.
Bolu
- Categories: big city, municipality, and locality
- Location: Bolu, Bolu Province, Turkey, Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
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)
UN/LOCODE
TR BOL
Open location code
8GGHPJM6+8C
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Bolu” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ቦሉ”
- Arabic: “بولو”
- Armenian: “Բոլու”
- Asturian: “Bolu”
- Azerbaijani: “Bolu”
- Basque: “Bolu”
- Belarusian: “Балу”
- Bengali: “বুলো”
- Bengali: “বোলু”
- Bulgarian: “Болу”
- Catalan: “Bolu”
- Cebuano: “Bolu (kapital sa lalawigan)”
- Cebuano: “Bolu”
- Central Kurdish: “بۆڵو”
- Chechen: “Болу”
- 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”
- Hausa: “Bolu”
- Hebrew: “בולו”
- Hindi: “बोलु”
- Hindi: “बोलू”
- Hungarian: “Bolu”
- Indonesian: “Bolu”
- Irish: “Bolu”
- Italian: “Bolu”
- Japanese: “ボル”
- Javanese: “Bolu”
- Kannada: “ಬೋಲು”
- Kazakh: “Болу”
- Kinyarwanda: “Bolu”
- Kirghiz: “Болу”
- 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”
- Oromo: “Bolu”
- Ossetian: “Болу”
- Panjabi: “ਬੋਲੁ”
- Persian: “بولو”
- Persian: “بولی”
- Polish: “Bolu”
- Portuguese: “Bolu”
- Pushto: “بولو”
- Romanian: “Bolu”
- Russian: “Болу”
- Scots: “Bolu”
- Serbian: “Bolu”
- Serbian: “Болу”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Bolu”
- Silesian: “Bolu”
- Sinhala: “බොලු”
- Slovak: “Bolu”
- Somali: “Bolu”
- South Azerbaijani: “بولی”
- Spanish: “Bolu”
- Swahili: “Bolu”
- Swedish: “Bolu”
- Tajik: “Болу”
- Talysh: “Bolu”
- Tamil: “பாலு”
- Tatar: “Болу”
- Telugu: “బోలు”
- Thai: “โบลู”
- Turkish: “Bolu”
- Udmurt: “Болу”
- Ukrainian: “Болу”
- Urdu: “بولو”
- Uzbek: “Bolu shahri (Turkiya)”
- Uzbek: “Bolu shahri”
- Uzbek: “Bolu”
- 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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