Bursa

Bursa is a large city in the region of Turkey, 20 km inland from the Marmara coast. It's the country's fourth-largest city, with a population of 2,161,990 in 2021, and with another million living in the wider metro area.
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  • Type: City with 3,240,000 residents
  • Description: city in Bursa province in western Turkey
  • Also known as: “Boersa”, “Boursa”, “Brousa”, “Broussa”, “Brousse”, “Brusa”, “Brussa”, “Bûrsa”, “Bursza”, “Jimbo la Bursa”, “Prousa”, “Prousa am Olympos”, “Prousias”, “Proussa”, “Proussas”, “Proussiya”, “Pruse”, “Prusias”, “Prussa”, “Pursa”, “Yeşil Bursa”, “Προύσσα”, “Бруза”, “Бруса”, “Брусса”, “Бурсу”, “Пруса”, “Прусса”, “ברוסה”, “الجمعيات الثقافية لمدينة بورصا”, “بروسة”, “بورسه”, “بورصا”, and “بورصة الخضراء”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Bursa Grand Mosque and Green Mosque.

Mosque
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The Grand Mosque of Bursa is a historic in Bursa, .

Mosque
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The , also known as the Mosque of Mehmed…

Mosque
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The is a in Bursa, .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Osmangazi and Zeyniler.

Town
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is a municipality and district of , .

Village
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is a village.

Bursa

Latitude
40.1826° or 40° 10′ 57″ north
Longitude
29.0675° or 29° 4′ 3″ east
Population
3,240,000
Elevation
155 metres (509 feet)
IATA airport code
YEI
UN/LOCODE
TR BTZ
Open location code
8GGF53M9+22
Open­Street­Map ID
node 289534897
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
750269
Wiki­data ID
Q40738
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Yue Chinese—“Bursa” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Бурса”
  • Adyghe: “Бурса”
  • Afrikaans: “Bursa”
  • Albanian: “Brusë”
  • Albanian: “Bursa”
  • Amharic: “ቡርሳ”
  • Arabic: “بورصة”
  • Armenian: “Բուրսա”
  • Asturian: “Bursa”
  • Avaric: “Бурса”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bursa”
  • Balinese: “Bursa, Turki”
  • Bashkir: “Бурса”
  • Basque: “Bursa”
  • Belarusian: “Бурса”
  • Bengali: “বুরসা”
  • Bosnian: “Bursa”
  • Breton: “Bursa”
  • Bulgarian: “Бурса”
  • Catalan: “Bursa”
  • Cebuano: “Bursa”
  • Central Kurdish: “بورسا”
  • Chechen: “Бурса”
  • Chinese: “布尔萨”
  • Chinese: “布爾薩”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Bursa”
  • Croatian: “Bursa”
  • Czech: “Bursa”
  • Danish: “Bursa”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bursa”
  • Dutch: “Bursa”
  • Eastern Mari: “Бурса”
  • Eastern Mari: “Бурсо”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بورصه”
  • Erzya: “Бурса”
  • Esperanto: “Bursa”
  • Esperanto: “Burso”
  • Estonian: “Bursa”
  • Fijian: “Bursa”
  • Finnish: “Bursa”
  • French: “Bursa”
  • Friulian: “Bursa”
  • Galician: “Bursa”
  • Georgian: “ბურსა”
  • German: “Bursa”
  • Gilaki: “بۊرسا”
  • Greek: “Προύσα”
  • Gujarati: “બુર્સા”
  • Hausa: “Bursa”
  • Hebrew: “בורסה”
  • Hindi: “बुरसा”
  • Hindi: “बुर्सा”
  • Hungarian: “Bursa”
  • Ido: “Bursa”
  • Indonesian: “Bursa, Turki”
  • Indonesian: “Bursa”
  • Interlingue: “Bursa”
  • Irish: “Bursa”
  • Italian: “Bursa”
  • Japanese: “ブルサ”
  • Javanese: “Bursa”
  • Kalaallisut: “Bursa”
  • Kannada: “ಬುರ್ಸಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Bursa”
  • Kazakh: “Бурса”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Bursa”
  • Kirghiz: “Бурса”
  • Korean: “부르사”
  • Kurdish: “Bursa”
  • Ladino: “Bursa”
  • Lak: “Бурса”
  • Latin: “Prusa ad Olympum”
  • Latin: “Prusa”
  • Latvian: “Bursa”
  • Limburgan: “Bursa”
  • Lithuanian: “Bursa”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Bursa”
  • Macedonian: “Бурса”
  • Maithili: “बुर्सा”
  • Malagasy: “Bursa”
  • Malay: “Bursa”
  • Malayalam: “ബുർസാ”
  • Maltese: “Bursa”
  • Marathi: “बुर्सा”
  • Mazanderani: “بورسا”
  • Minangkabau: “Bursa”
  • Mingrelian: “ბურსა”
  • Moksha: “Бурса”
  • Mongolian: “Бурса”
  • N'Ko: “ߓߎߙߑߛߊ߫”
  • Nauru: “Bursa”
  • Nepali: “बुर्सा”
  • Northern Luri: “بورسا”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bursa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bursa”
  • Norwegian: “Bursa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Brossa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bursa”
  • Oromo: “Bursa”
  • Ossetian: “Бурсæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੁਰਸਾ”
  • Persian: “بورسا”
  • Polish: “Bursa”
  • Portuguese: “Bursa”
  • Pushto: “بورصه”
  • Romanian: “Bursa”
  • Russia Buriat: “Бурса”
  • Russian: “Бурса”
  • Scots: “Bursa”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bursa”
  • Serbian: “Бурса”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bursa”
  • Silesian: “Bursa (mjasto)”
  • Silesian: “Bursa”
  • Sinhala: “බුර්සා”
  • Slovak: “Bursa”
  • Slovenian: “Bursa”
  • Somali: “Bursa”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بورسا”
  • Spanish: “Bursa”
  • Swahili: “Bursa”
  • Swedish: “Bursa”
  • Tajik: “Бурса”
  • Talysh: “Bursa”
  • Tamil: “பர்ஸா”
  • Tamil: “புர்சா”
  • Tatar: “Bursa”
  • Tatar: “Бурса”
  • Telugu: “బర్సా”
  • Thai: “บูร์ซา”
  • Turkish: “Bursa”
  • Tuvinian: “Бурса”
  • Udmurt: “Бурса”
  • Uighur: “بۇرسا”
  • Ukrainian: “Бурса”
  • Urdu: “بورصہ”
  • Uzbek: “Bursa”
  • Venetian: “Bursa”
  • Veps: “Burs”
  • Vietnamese: “Bursa”
  • Vlax Romani: “Bursa”
  • Volapük: “Bursa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bursa, Turkeya”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bursa”
  • Welsh: “Bursa”
  • Western Armenian: “Պուրսա”
  • Western Mari: “Бурса”
  • Western Panjabi: “برصہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “布尔萨”
  • Yue Chinese: “布爾薩”
  • “Bursa”

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