Istanbul

Istanbul is a very large city of fantastic history, culture and beauty. Called Byzantium in ancient times, the city's name was changed to Constantinople in 324 CE when it was rebuilt by the first Christian Roman Emperor, Constantine.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Historical Peninsula and Golden Horn.
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The is the oldest part of Istanbul.
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The is the district of Istanbul…
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Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Istanbul Airport and Kadıköy.
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, also known as Istanbul New Airport…
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is the Asia-side district of Istanbul closest…
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is just north, across the Golden Horn, from the Old City of Istanbul.
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is one of the two…
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Şile is a beach resort, part of the metropolis of Istanbul.
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The is the area of Istanbul along…
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The are a collection of Istanbul…
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Istanbul's is a modern district north of .

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hagia Sophia and Topkapı Palace.
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, officially the Grand…
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The or the Seraglio, is a large museum…
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Üsküdar and Şişli.
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is a municipality and district of .
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is a municipality and district of .
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or Eyüp is a municipality and district of .

Istanbul

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Latitude
41.037° or 41° 2′ 13″ north
Longitude
28.9851° or 28° 59′ 6″ east
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TR IST
Open location code
8GHC2XPP+Q2
Open­Street­Map ID
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Geo­Names ID
745044
Wiki­data ID
Q406

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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Istanbul” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Сҭампыл”
  • Achinese: “Éseutamu”
  • Adyghe: “Истамбыл”
  • Afrikaans: “Istanboel”
  • Albanian: “Stambolli”
  • Amharic: “Istanbul”
  • Amharic: “ኢስታንቡል”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Κωνσταντινούπολη”
  • Angika: “इस्तानबुल”
  • Arabic: “إسطمبول”
  • Arabic: “إسلامبول”
  • Arabic: “استانبول”
  • Arabic: “اسطنبول”
  • Arabic: “الأسِتانة”
  • Arabic: “القُسْطَنْطِيْنِيَّة”
  • Arabic: “بيزنطة”
  • Aragonese: “Istambul”
  • Armenian: “Բյուզանդիոն” (historical)
  • Armenian: “Կոստանդնուպոլիս” (historical)
  • Armenian: “Ստամբուլ”
  • Arpitan: “Istanboul”
  • Arpitan: “Istanbul”
  • Assamese: “ইষ্টানবুল”
  • Asturian: “Estambul”
  • Avaric: “Истамбул”
  • Avaric: “Истанбул”
  • Awadhi: “इस्तानबुल”
  • Azerbaijani: “İstambul”
  • Azerbaijani: “İstanbul”
  • Azerbaijani: “Konstantinopol”
  • Balinese: “Istanbul”
  • Bambara: “Istanbul”
  • Bashkir: “Истанбул”
  • Bashkir: “Ыстамбул”
  • Bashkir: “Ыҫтамбул”
  • Basque: “Istanbul”
  • Bavarian: “Istanbul”
  • Belarusian: “Канстантынопаль”
  • Belarusian: “Стамбул”
  • Belarusian: “Царград”
  • Bengali: “ইস্তাম্বুল”
  • Bhojpuri: “इस्तांबुल”
  • Bosnian: “Istanbul”
  • Breton: “Istanbul”
  • Bulgarian: “Tsarigrad” (historical)
  • Bulgarian: “Истанбул”
  • Bulgarian: “Константинопол”
  • Bulgarian: “Цариград”
  • Burmese: “အစ်စတန်ဘူလ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Constantinoble” (historical)
  • Catalan: “Istanbul”
  • Cebuano: “Estambul”
  • Cebuano: “İstanbul”
  • Central Kanuri: “Istanbul”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەستەمبوڵ”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەستەنبوڵ”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەستەنبووڵ”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئیستەنبوڵ”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئیستەنبووڵ”
  • Chechen: “Истамбул”
  • Chechen: “Стамбул”
  • Cheyenne: “Istanbul”
  • Chinese: “伊斯坦堡”
  • Chinese: “伊斯坦布尔 / 伊斯坦堡”
  • Chinese: “伊斯坦布尔”
  • Chinese: “伊斯坦布爾”
  • Church Slavic: “Царь Градъ”
  • Church Slavic: “Цѣсар҄ь Градъ”
  • Chuvash: “Стамбул”
  • Cornish: “Istanbul”
  • Corsican: “Istanbul”
  • Crimean Tatar: “İstanbul”
  • Croatian: “Carigrad” (historical)
  • Croatian: “Istanbul”
  • Croatian: “Konstantinopol” (historical)
  • Czech: “Byzantion” (historical)
  • Czech: “Istanbul”
  • Dagbani: “Istanbul”
  • Danish: “Istanbul”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Estamol”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Estanbol”
  • Dotyali: “इस्तानबुल”
  • Dutch: “Constantinopolen” (historical)
  • Dutch: “Istanboel”
  • Dutch: “Istanbul”
  • Eastern Mari: “Стамбул”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “استانبول”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اسطنبول”
  • Emilian: “Ìstanbul”
  • Erzya: “Стамбул ош”
  • Esperanto: “Istanbulo”
  • Esperanto: “Konstantinopolo” (historical)
  • Estonian: “İstanbul”
  • Extremaduran: “Estambul”
  • Faroese: “Istanbul”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Istanbul”
  • Fijian: “Istanbul”
  • Finnish: “Byzantion” (historical)
  • Finnish: “Istanbul”
  • Finnish: “Konstantinopoli”
  • French: “Istamboul”
  • French: “Istambul”
  • French: “Istanbul”
  • French: “Stamboul”
  • French: “Byzance” (historical)
  • Friulian: “Istanbul”
  • Gagauz: “İstanbul”
  • Galician: “Istanbul”
  • Gan Chinese: “伊斯坦布爾”
  • Georgian: “ისტანბული”
  • Georgian: “კონსტანტინოპოლი”
  • Georgian: “სტამბოლი”
  • Georgian: “სტამბული”
  • German: “Istanbul”
  • German: “Byzantion” (historical)
  • German: “Konstantinopel” (historical)
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Istanbul”
  • Gilaki: “ايستامبۊل”
  • Gorontalo: “Istanbul”
  • Gothic: “𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽𐌱𐌿𐌻”
  • Gothic: “𐌺𐍉𐌽𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽𐍄𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌿𐍀𐌰𐌿𐌻𐍃”
  • Greek: “Βυζαντιο” (historical)
  • Greek: “Ισταμπούλ”
  • Greek: “Κωνσταντινούπολη” (historical)
  • Greek: “στην Πόλι [stimˈboli]” (historical)
  • Guarani: “Estambul”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Istanbul”
  • Gujarati: “ઈસ્તાંબુલ”
  • Haitian: “Istanboul”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Istanbul”
  • Hausa: “Istanbul”
  • Hebrew: “איסטנבול”
  • Hebrew: “ביזנטיון”
  • Hebrew: “קושטא”
  • Hindi: “इस्तांबुल”
  • Hungarian: “Bizánc” (historical)
  • Hungarian: “Isztambul”
  • Hungarian: “Konstantinápoly” (historical)
  • Iban: “Istanbul”
  • Icelandic: “Istanbúl”
  • Ido: “Istanbul”
  • Iloko: “Istanbul”
  • Inari Sami: “Istanbul”
  • Indonesian: “Istanbul”
  • Indonesian: “Konstantinopel”
  • Ingush: “Истмале”
  • Interlingua: “Istanbul”
  • Interlingue: “Istanbul”
  • Irish: “Iostanbúl”
  • Italian: “Costantinopoli” (historical)
  • Italian: “Istanbul”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Istanbul”
  • Japanese: “イスタンブール”
  • Japanese: “イスタンブール市”
  • Japanese: “イスタンブル”
  • Japanese: “ビュザンティオン”
  • Javanese: “Istanbul”
  • Jèrriais: “Coustantinoble”
  • Jèrriais: “Coustantinobles”
  • Kabardian: “Истамбыл”
  • Kabiyè: “Isitambuli”
  • Kabyle: “Istambul”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Istanbul”
  • Kalaallisut: “Istanbul”
  • Kalmyk: “Истанбул балһсн”
  • Kannada: “ಇಸ್ತಾಂಬುಲ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Istanbul”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Истанбул”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Стампул”
  • Kashmiri: “اِستانبُل”
  • Kashmiri: “اِستنبوٗل”
  • Kashubian: “Stambùł”
  • Kashubian: “Sztambùl”
  • Kazakh: “Константинополь”
  • Kazakh: “Стамбул”
  • Kazakh: “Ыстамбұл”
  • Kazakh: “Ыстанбұл”
  • Khmer: “អ៊ីស្តង់ប៊ុល”
  • Kikuyu: “İstanbul”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Istanbul”
  • Kirghiz: “Стамбул”
  • Kirghiz: “Ыстанбул”
  • Komering: “Istanbul”
  • Korean: “비잔티움”
  • Korean: “이스탄불”
  • Kurdish: “Stembol”
  • Ladin: “Istanbul”
  • Ladino: “Estambol”
  • Ladino: “İstanbul”
  • Lak: “Истамбул”
  • Lao: “ອິສະຕັນບູນ”
  • Latin: “Byzantium” (historical)
  • Latin: “Constantinopolis”
  • Latvian: “Stambula”
  • Laz: “Mp’oli”
  • Lezghian: “Истамбул”
  • Limburgan: “Istanboel”
  • Lingala: “Istanbul”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Istanbul”
  • Literary Chinese: “伊斯坦堡”
  • Lithuanian: “Stambulas”
  • Livvi: “Istanbul”
  • Lombard: “Istanbul”
  • Low German: “Byzanz” (historical)
  • Low German: “Istanboel”
  • Low German: “Istanbul”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Istanbul”
  • Luxembourgish: “Istanbul”
  • Macedonian: “Византија (Vizantija)” (historical)
  • Macedonian: “Истанбул”
  • Madurese: “Istanbul”
  • Magahi: “इस्तान्बुल”
  • Maithili: “इस्तानबुल”
  • Malagasy: “Istanbul”
  • Malay: “Istanbul”
  • Malay: “Setambul”
  • Malay: “ايستنبول”
  • Malay: “ستمبول”
  • Malayalam: “ഇസ്താംബുൾ”
  • Maltese: “Istanbul”
  • Manx: “İstanbul”
  • Maori: “Istanbul”
  • Maori: “Itapūru”
  • Marathi: “इस्तंबूल”
  • Mazanderani: “استامبول”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Istanbul”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “İstanbul”
  • Minangkabau: “Istanbul”
  • Mingrelian: “სტამბოლი”
  • Moksha: “Истанбул”
  • Mongolian: “Стамбул”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “إسطانبول”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “إسطنبول”
  • N'Ko: “ߌߛߑߕߊ߲ߓߎߟ”
  • Nauru: “Istanbul”
  • Navajo: “Ałchʼįʼ Nááʼáhá”
  • Neapolitan: “Istanbul”
  • Nepali: “इस्तानबुल”
  • Newari: “इस्तान्बुल”
  • Northern Frisian: “Istanbul”
  • Northern Luri: “استانبول”
  • Northern Sami: “Istanbul”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Istanbul”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Istanbul”
  • Norwegian: “Istanbul”
  • Novial: “Istanbul”
  • Nyanja: “Istanbul”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bizanci”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Constantinòple”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Istambol”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Istanbol”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܝܣܛܢܒܘܠ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Constanburg”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Constantinople”
  • Old Norse: “Mikligarður” (historical)
  • Oriya: “ଇସ୍ତାନବୁଲ”
  • Oromo: “Istanbul”
  • Ossetian: “Стамбул”
  • Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): “استانبول”
  • Panjabi: “ਇਸਤਾਨਬੁਲ”
  • Panjabi: “ਇਸਤਾਂਬੁਲ”
  • Papiamento: “Istanbul”
  • Persian: “استانبول”
  • Persian: “شهر کنستانتین”
  • Persian: “قسطنطنیه”
  • Picard: “Istamboul”
  • Piemontese: “Istanbul”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Istanbul”
  • Polish: “Istambuł”
  • Polish: “Istanbul”
  • Polish: “Stambuł”
  • Portuguese: “Istambul”
  • Portuguese: “Istanbul”
  • Pushto: “استانبول”
  • Pushto: “استنبول”
  • Quechua: “Istampul”
  • Quechua: “Istanbul”
  • Quechua: “Istanpul”
  • Romanian: “Istanbul”
  • Romansh: “Istanbul”
  • Russia Buriat: “Истанбул”
  • Russian: “Стамбул”
  • Rusyn: “Істанбул”
  • Samogitian: “Stambols”
  • Samogitian: “Stanbols”
  • Santali: “ᱤᱥᱛᱟᱱᱵᱩᱞ”
  • Sardinian: “Istanbul”
  • Scots: “Constantinople”
  • Scots: “Istanbul”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Istanbul”
  • Serbian: “Византион”
  • Serbian: “Истанбул”
  • Serbian: “Константинопољ”
  • Serbian: “Стамбол”
  • Serbian: “Цариград”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Istanbul”
  • Sicilian: “Istanbul”
  • Silesian: “Stambuł”
  • Sindhi: “استنبول”
  • Sinhala: “ඉස්තාන්බුල්”
  • Slovak: “Byzantion” (historical)
  • Slovak: “Istanbul”
  • Slovenian: “Carigrad”
  • Somali: “Istanbul”
  • Somali: “Istanbuul”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ایستانبول”
  • Spanish: “Estambul”
  • Spanish: “Constantinopla” (historical)
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵉⵙⵟⴰⵏⴱⵓⵍ”
  • Sundanese: “Istanbul”
  • Swahili: “Istanbul”
  • Swedish: “Byzantion” (historical)
  • Swedish: “Istanbul”
  • Swedish: “Konstantinopel” (historical)
  • Swedish: “Micklagård” (historical)
  • Swiss German: “Istanbul”
  • Sylheti: “ꠁꠍꠔꠣꠘꠛꠥꠟ”
  • Tagalog: “Istanbul”
  • Tajik: “Истанбул”
  • Talysh: “Istanbul”
  • Tamil: “இசுதான்புல்”
  • Tamil: “இஸ்தான்புல்”
  • Tatar: “Истанбул”
  • Tatar: “Стамбул”
  • Telugu: “ఇస్తాంబుల్”
  • Tetum: “Istanbul”
  • Thai: “คอนสแตนติโนเปิล”
  • Thai: “อิสตันบูล”
  • Tumbuka: “Istanbul”
  • Turkish: “İstanbul”
  • Turkmen: “Stambul”
  • Tuvinian: “Истaнбул”
  • Tuvinian: “Истанбул”
  • Twi: “Istanbul”
  • Tyap: “Itambut”
  • Tyap: “Kwontanti̱noput”
  • Udmurt: “Стамбул”
  • Uighur: “Istanbul”
  • Uighur: “ئىستانبۇل”
  • Ukrainian: “Стамбул”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Istanbul”
  • Urdu: “استمبول”
  • Urdu: “استنبول”
  • Urdu: “قسطنطنیہ”
  • Uzbek: “Istanbu”
  • Uzbek: “Istanbul”
  • Venetian: “Istanbul”
  • Veps: “Stambul”
  • Vietnamese: “Istanbul”
  • Vlaams: “Istanbul”
  • Vlax Romani: “Istanbul”
  • Volapük: “İstanbul”
  • Võro: “Istanbul”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Istanbul”
  • Welsh: “Istanbul”
  • Welsh: “Istanbwl”
  • Western Armenian: “Իսթանպուլ”
  • Western Armenian: “Կոստանդնուպոլիս” (historical)
  • Western Armenian: “Պոլիս”
  • Western Frisian: “Istanbûl”
  • Western Mari: “Стамбул”
  • Western Panjabi: “استنبول”
  • Wu Chinese: “伊斯坦布尔”
  • Yakut: “Истанбул”
  • Yiddish: “סטאמבול”
  • Yiddish: “קושטא”
  • Yoruba: “Istanbul”
  • Yue Chinese: “Istanbul”
  • Yue Chinese: “伊斯坦堡”
  • Yue Chinese: “伊斯坦布爾”
  • Zeeuws: “Istanbul”
  • Zulu: “Istanbul”

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