Kayseri
Kayseri is a city in Central Anatolia, 350 km southeast of Ankara. In 2021 the population was 1.2 million. Kayseri is a sprawling industrial city, with a mixture of trades such as furniture, and has a university.
- Type: City with 1,390,000 residents
- Description: city in Turkey
- Also known as: “Bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia”, “Caesarea”, “Cæsarea”, “Caesarea in Kappadokien”, “Caesarea kappadokiana”, “Caesarea Mazaca”, “Caesarea Mazaka”, “Caesareia”, “Caesareia Cappadociae”, “Casarea”, “Céarée”, “Cesarea de Capadòcia”, “Cesarea de Cappadòcia”, “Cesarea Macaza”, “Cesarea Mazaca”, “Césarée”, “Césarée de Cappadoce”, “Cesareia”, “Cesareia de Capadócia”, “Cesareia Mazaca”, “Cesareia Mázaca”, “Cesaréia Mázaca”, “Cesareia na Capadócia”, “Cézarea”, “Cezarea Kapadocka”, “Cézarea Kapadócka”, “Cēzareja Mazaka”, “Eusebeia”, “Eusebia”, “Eusebia at the Argaeus”, “Jimbo la Kayseri”, “Kaisarea wa Kapadokia”, “Kaisareia”, “Kaisareia Mazaka”, “Kaisaria”, “Kaisarie”, “Kaisarieh”, “Kaisarije”, “Kaisariyah”, “Kaīzarie”, “Kaysaria”, “Kaysariyə”, “Kayseriyye”, “Kaysəri”, “Kayzeri”, “Kesária Kappadocká”, “Mazaca”, “Mázaca”, “Mazacus”, “Mazaka”, “Qaisariye”, “Καισαρεία”, “Μάζακα”, “Кајзери”, “Кападокијска Цезареја”, “Каппадокийская Кесария”, “Кесарея Каппадокийская”, “Кесария Каппадокийская”, “Кесарія Каппадокійська”, “Мазака”, “Цезареја”, “Цезареја Кападокијска”, “Цезарея”, “Цезарея Каппадокийская”, “کایسارئا مازاکا”, “کایسری”, “ไคย์เซอรี”, “เซซาเรีย คาพะโดเคีย”, “เซซาเรีย มาซาคา”, “เซซาเรียในคาพะโดเคีย”, “มาซาคา”, “สังฆราชแห่งเซซาเรียคาพะโดเคีย”, “마자카”, and “カイサレア”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Kayseri Archaeology Museum and Surp Asdvadzadzin Church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Melikgazi and Kocasinan.
Kayseri
- Categories: metropolitan municipality in Turkey, big city, and locality
- Location: Kayseri Province, Turkey, Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Europe
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Latitude
38.7219° or 38° 43′ 19″ north
Longitude
35.4873° or 35° 29′ 14″ east
Population
1,390,000
Elevation
1,054 metres (3,458 feet)
IATA airport code
ASR
UN/LOCODE
TR ASR
Open location code
8GCQPFCP+QW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Adyghe to Yue Chinese—“Kayseri” goes by many names.
- Adyghe: “Къайсэр”
- Afrikaans: “Kayseri”
- Albanian: “Kajseri”
- Albanian: “Kajseriu”
- Amharic: “ካይሰሪ”
- Arabic: “قيصرية”
- Armenian: “Կեսարիա”
- Armenian: “ԿԵՍԱՐԻԱ”
- Armenian: “Մաժաք”
- Asturian: “Kayseri”
- Azerbaijani: “Kayseri”
- Bashkir: “Кайсери”
- Basque: “Kayseri”
- Belarusian: “Кайсеры”
- Belarusian: “Кайсэры”
- Bengali: “কায়সিরি”
- Bengali: “কায়সেরি”
- Bosnian: “Kayseri”
- Breton: “Kayseri”
- Bulgarian: “Кайсери”
- Catalan: “Kayseri”
- Cebuano: “Kayseri”
- Central Kurdish: “قەیسەری”
- Chechen: “Кайсери”
- Chinese: “开塞利”
- Chinese: “開塞利”
- Croatian: “Kayseri”
- Czech: “Kayseri”
- Danish: “Kayseri”
- Dimli (individual language): “Qeyseriye”
- Dutch: “Kayseri”
- Eastern Mari: “Кайсери”
- Egyptian Arabic: “قيصريه”
- Esperanto: “Kayseri”
- Estonian: “Kayseri”
- Finnish: “Kayseri”
- French: “Kayseri”
- Friulian: “Kayseri”
- Gagauz: “Kayseri”
- Galician: “Kayseri”
- Georgian: “კაისერი”
- German: “Kayseri”
- Gilaki: “قیصريه (تۊرکيه)”
- Gilaki: “قیصريه”
- Greek: “Καισάρεια”
- Gujarati: “કેસરી”
- Hausa: “Kayseri”
- Hebrew: “קייסרי”
- Hindi: “कायसेरी”
- Hindi: “क़ैसरी”
- Hungarian: “Kayseri”
- Indonesian: “Kayseri”
- Interlingue: “Kayseri”
- Irish: “Kayseri”
- Italian: “Cesarea in Cappadocia”
- Italian: “Kayseri”
- Japanese: “カイセリ”
- Javanese: “Kayseri”
- Kabardian: “Къайсэр”
- Kannada: “ಕಾಯ್ಸೇರಿ”
- Kannada: “ಕೊಸೇರಿ”
- Kazakh: “Кайсери”
- Kazakh: “Қайсері”
- Kinyarwanda: “Kayseri”
- Kirghiz: “Кайсери”
- Korean: “카이세리”
- Kurdish: “Qeyserî (bajar)”
- Kurdish: “Qeyserî”
- Latin: “Caesarea Cappadociae”
- Latin: “Caesarea in Cappadocia”
- Latvian: “Kajseri”
- Lithuanian: “Kaiseris”
- Lombard: “Cesarea de Capadocia”
- Macedonian: “Кајсери”
- Malagasy: “Kayseri”
- Malay: “Kayseri”
- Marathi: “केसरी”
- Mazanderani: “کیسری”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kayseri”
- Minangkabau: “Kayseri”
- Mingrelian: “კაისერი”
- Moksha: “Кайсэри”
- Nauru: “Kayseri”
- Nepali: “कायसेरी”
- Northern Frisian: “Kayseri (Steed)”
- Northern Frisian: “Kayseri”
- Northern Luri: “قیصریه”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kayseri”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kayseri”
- Norwegian: “Kayseri”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kayseri”
- Oromo: “Kayseri”
- Ossetian: “Хъайсери”
- Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): “قیصریه”
- Panjabi: “ਕਾਇਸੇਰੀ”
- Persian: “قیصریه”
- Piemontese: “Kayseri”
- Polish: “Kayseri”
- Portuguese: “Caiseri”
- Portuguese: “Kayseri”
- Pushto: “قيصري”
- Romanian: “Kayseri”
- Russian: “Кайсери”
- Sardinian: “Cesarea”
- Scots: “Kayseri”
- Serbian: “Кајсери”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kayseri”
- Silesian: “Kayseri”
- Sinhala: “කේසරි”
- Slovak: “Kayseri”
- Slovenian: “Kayseri”
- Somali: “Kayseri”
- South Azerbaijani: “قئیصریه”
- South Azerbaijani: “قیصریه”
- Spanish: “Kayseri”
- Swahili: “Kayseri”
- Swedish: “Kayseri”
- Tajik: “Кайсери”
- Tajik: “Қайсари”
- Tajik: “Қайсария”
- Talysh: “Kajseri”
- Tamil: “கெய்சேரி”
- Tamil: “கேசரி”
- Tatar: “Кайсәри”
- Tatar: “Кайсери”
- Telugu: “కేజారి”
- Thai: “ไกเซรี”
- Thai: “คัยเซรี”
- Turkish: “Kayseri”
- Tuvinian: “Кaйсери”
- Tuvinian: “Кайсери”
- Twi: “Kayseri”
- Udmurt: “Кайсери”
- Ukrainian: “Кайсері”
- Urdu: “قیصری”
- Urdu: “قیصریہ”
- Uzbek: “Qayseri”
- Venetian: “Kayseri”
- Veps: “Kaiseri”
- Vietnamese: “Kaiseri”
- Vietnamese: “Kayseri”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kayseri”
- Welsh: “Kayseri”
- Western Armenian: “Կեսարիա”
- Western Mari: “Кайсери”
- Western Panjabi: “کیسری شہر”
- Wu Chinese: “开塞利”
- Yue Chinese: “卡伊瑟里”
- Yue Chinese: “開塞利”
- “Cesarea de Capadocia”
- “Kayseri”
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