Turkey
Bursa Province
Osmangazi District

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 Turkey
  • Also known as: “Boursa” and “Broussa”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bursa Grand Mosque and Green Mosque.

Mosque
Photo: Beñat Irasuegi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Grand Mosque of Bursa is a historic in Bursa, . It was commissioned by the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I to commemorate his great victory at the Battle of Nicopolis and built between 1396 and 1399.

Mosque
Photo: Brücke-Osteuropa, Public domain.
The , also known as the Mosque of Mehmed I, is a part of a larger complex on the east side of Bursa, Turkey, the former capital of the Ottoman Turks before Constantinople was captured in 1453.

Mosque
Photo: Dosseman, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a in Bursa, . First built in the 15th century, it was rebuilt in 1804 for the Ottoman sultan Selim III and rebuilt again in 1868, the plan of the mosque changing slightly with each rebuild.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Osmangazi and Zeyniler.

Town
Photo: HALUK COMERTEL, CC BY 3.0.
is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 621 km2, and its population is 891,250. It is one of the central metropolitan districts of the city of Bursa, as well as the fourth largest overall municipality in .

Village
Photo: Basak, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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
United Nations Location Code
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: “Yeşil Bursa”
  • Arabic: “الجمعيات الثقافية لمدينة بورصا”
  • Arabic: “بروسة”
  • Arabic: “بورسا”
  • Arabic: “بورصا”
  • Arabic: “بورصة الخضراء”
  • Arabic: “بورصة”
  • Arabic: “بورصه”
  • Armenian: “Բուրսա”
  • Asturian: “Bursa”
  • Avaric: “Бурса”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bursa”
  • Bashkir: “Бурса”
  • Basque: “Bursa”
  • Belarusian: “Бурса”
  • Bengali: “বুরসা”
  • Bosnian: “Bursa”
  • Breton: “Bursa”
  • Bulgarian: “Бруса”
  • Bulgarian: “Бурса”
  • Bulgarian: “Пруса”
  • Catalan: “Brusa”
  • Catalan: “Bursa”
  • Catalan: “Prusa”
  • 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: “Boersa”
  • Dutch: “Bursa”
  • Dutch: “Proussa”
  • Eastern Mari: “Бурса”
  • Eastern Mari: “Бурсо”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بورصه”
  • Erzya: “Бурса”
  • Esperanto: “Bursa”
  • Esperanto: “Burso”
  • Estonian: “Bursa”
  • Fijian: “Bursa”
  • Finnish: “Brusa”
  • Finnish: “Bursa”
  • Finnish: “Prusa”
  • French: “Brousse”
  • French: “Bursa”
  • French: “Pruse”
  • Friulian: “Bursa”
  • Galician: “Bursa”
  • Georgian: “ბურსა”
  • German: “Brussa”
  • German: “Bursa”
  • German: “Prusa ad Olympum”
  • Gilaki: “بۊرسا”
  • Greek: “Προύσα”
  • Greek: “Προύσσα”
  • Gujarati: “બુર્સા”
  • Hausa: “Bursa”
  • Hebrew: “בורסה”
  • Hebrew: “ברוסה”
  • Hindi: “बर्सा”
  • Hindi: “बुर्सा”
  • Hungarian: “Bursa”
  • Hungarian: “Bursza”
  • Ido: “Bursa”
  • Indonesian: “Bursa, Turki”
  • Indonesian: “Bursa”
  • Indonesian: “Proussa”
  • Interlingue: “Bursa”
  • Irish: “Bursa”
  • Italian: “Brussa”
  • Italian: “Bursa”
  • Italian: “Prusa”
  • Japanese: “ブルサ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Bursa”
  • Kannada: “ಬುರ್ಸಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Bursa”
  • Kazakh: “Бурса”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Bursa”
  • Kirghiz: “Бурса”
  • Korean: “부르사”
  • Kurdish: “Bursa”
  • Kurdish: “Bûrsa”
  • Ladino: “Bursa”
  • Lak: “Бурса”
  • Latin: “Prusa ad Olympum”
  • Latin: “Prusa”
  • Latvian: “Bursa”
  • Limburgan: “Bursa”
  • Lithuanian: “Brusa”
  • Lithuanian: “Bursa”
  • Lithuanian: “Prusa”
  • 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: “Brusa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bursa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Prusa”
  • Norwegian: “Bursa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Brossa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bursa”
  • Ossetian: “Бурсæ”
  • Ossetian: “Бурса”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੁਰਸਾ”
  • Persian: “بورسا”
  • Persian: “بورسه”
  • Persian: “بورصه”
  • Polish: “Brusa”
  • Polish: “Bursa”
  • Polish: “Prusa”
  • Portuguese: “Brusa”
  • Portuguese: “Bursa”
  • Portuguese: “Prousa”
  • Portuguese: “Prusa”
  • Portuguese: “Prussa”
  • Pushto: “بورصه”
  • Romanian: “Bursa”
  • Russia Buriat: “Бурса”
  • Russian: “Бруза”
  • Russian: “Бруса”
  • Russian: “Брусса”
  • Russian: “Бурса”
  • Russian: “Бурсу”
  • Russian: “Пруса”
  • Russian: “Прусса”
  • Scots: “Bursa”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bursa”
  • Serbian: “Бруса”
  • Serbian: “Бурса”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bursa”
  • Silesian: “Bursa (mjasto)”
  • Silesian: “Bursa”
  • Sinhala: “බුර්සා”
  • Slovak: “Bursa”
  • Slovak: “Pursa”
  • Slovenian: “Bursa”
  • Somali: “Bursa”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بورسا”
  • Spanish: “Brusa”
  • Spanish: “Bursa”
  • Spanish: “Prusa”
  • Swahili: “Bursa”
  • Swahili: “Jimbo la Bursa”
  • Swedish: “Broussa”
  • Swedish: “Brousse”
  • Swedish: “Brusa”
  • Swedish: “Brussa”
  • Swedish: “Bursa”
  • Swedish: “Proussas”
  • Swedish: “Prusa”
  • Swedish: “Prusias”
  • Tajik: “Бурса”
  • Talysh: “Bursa”
  • Tamil: “பர்ஸா”
  • Tamil: “புர்சா”
  • Tatar: “Bursa”
  • Telugu: “బర్సా”
  • Thai: “Bursa”
  • Thai: “บูร์ซา”
  • Turkish: “Bursa”
  • Turkish: “Prousa am Olympos”
  • Turkish: “Prousa”
  • Turkish: “Prousias”
  • Turkish: “Prusa”
  • 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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