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Konya Province

Konya

Konya is a city in in Turkey, known as the city of "whirling dervishes" and for its outstanding Seljuk architecture. In 2021 Konya metropolis had a population of 2,277,017, the sixth largest in Turkey, but the area of most interest is compact.
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  • Type: City with 2,160,000 residents
  • Description: metropolitan municipality in Central Anatolia, Turkey
  • Also known as: “Iconium”, “Ikoniow”, “Kuniyah”, and “Qonia”
  • Historically known as: “Koni”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mevlana Museum and Alâeddin Mosque.

Museum
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The Mevlâna Museum, in Konya, Turkey, started life as the dervish lodge of the Mevlevi order, better known as the whirling dervishes. It houses the mausoleum of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, a Persian Sufi mystic.

Mosque
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The is the principal monument on Alaaddin Hill in the centre of Konya, . Part of the hilltop citadel complex that contained the Seljuk Palace, it served as the main prayer hall for the Seljuk Sultans of Rum and its courtyard contains the burial places of several of the sultans.

Museum
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İnce Minareli Medrese is a 13th-century madrasa located in Konya, , now housing the Museum of Stone and Wood Art, noted for its ornate entrance, domed courtyard, ornamentally bricked minaret, partially destroyed in 1901, and exemplar Seljuk architecture.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Selçuklu and Karatay.

Town
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is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 1,931 km2, and its population is 690,667. is one of the central districts of Konya, along with the districts of and .

Town
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is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 2,832 km and will be able to produce 26 GWh of electricity annually.

Town
is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 1,822 km2, and its population is 348,325. is one of the central districts of Konya, along with the districts of and .

Konya

Latitude
37.8727° or 37° 52′ 22″ north
Longitude
32.4924° or 32° 29′ 33″ east
Population
2,160,000
Elevation
1,030 metres (3,379 feet)
IATA airport code
KYA
United Nations Location Code
TR KYA
Open location code
8G9JVFFR+3X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25869814
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
306571
Wiki­data ID
Q79857
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Konya” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Konya”
  • Albanian: “Konia”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἰκόνιον”
  • Arabic: “قوني”
  • Arabic: “قونية”
  • Arabic: “قونيه”
  • Armenian: “Կոնիա”
  • Armenian: “Քոնիա”
  • Armenian: “Քոնյա”
  • Asturian: “Konya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Konya”
  • Bashkir: “Конья”
  • Basque: “Konya”
  • Belarusian: “Конья”
  • Bengali: “কনিয়া”
  • Bengali: “কোনিয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Ikonijum”
  • Bosnian: “Konja”
  • Bosnian: “Konya”
  • Breton: “Konya”
  • Bulgarian: “Икониум”
  • Bulgarian: “Икония”
  • Bulgarian: “Кония”
  • Bulgarian: “Коня”
  • Catalan: “Iconi”
  • Catalan: “Icònion”
  • Catalan: “Iconium”
  • Catalan: “Icònium”
  • Catalan: “Konya”
  • Cebuano: “Konya”
  • Central Kurdish: “قۆنیا”
  • Central Kurdish: “قۆنیە”
  • Central Kurdish: “کۆنیا”
  • Chechen: “Кони”
  • Chechen: “Конья”
  • Chinese: “以哥念”
  • Chinese: “康亞”
  • Chinese: “康雅”
  • Chinese: “科尼亚”
  • Chinese: “科尼亞”
  • Croatian: “Konya”
  • Czech: “Iconium”
  • Czech: “Ikonion”
  • Czech: “Ikonium”
  • Czech: “Konya”
  • Danish: “Konya”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Qonya”
  • Dutch: “Konya”
  • Eastern Mari: “Конья”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “قونيه”
  • Erzya: “Конья”
  • Esperanto: “Konja”
  • Esperanto: “Konjao”
  • Esperanto: “Konya”
  • Estonian: “Konya”
  • Finnish: “Konya”
  • French: “Iconium”
  • French: “Konieh”
  • French: “Konya”
  • French: “Qonya”
  • Galician: “Konya”
  • Georgian: “კონია”
  • German: “Iconium”
  • German: “Ikonion”
  • German: “Julitta”
  • German: “Konya”
  • German: “Konyah”
  • German: “Quiricus”
  • Gilaki: “قۊنيه”
  • Greek: “Ικόνιο”
  • Gujarati: “કોન્યા”
  • Hausa: “Konya”
  • Hebrew: “אקוניום”
  • Hebrew: “קוניה”
  • Hindi: “कोन्या”
  • Hungarian: “Konya”
  • Ido: “Konya”
  • Indonesian: “Ikonium”
  • Indonesian: “Konya”
  • Interlingue: “Konya”
  • Irish: “Konya”
  • Italian: “Iconio”
  • Italian: “Iconium”
  • Italian: “Konya”
  • Japanese: “イコニウム”
  • Japanese: “イコニオン”
  • Japanese: “コニヤ”
  • Japanese: “コンヤ”
  • Kannada: “ಕೊನ್ಯಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಕೋಣ್ಯ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Konya”
  • Kazakh: “Кония”
  • Kazakh: “Конья”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Konya”
  • Korean: “코니아”
  • Korean: “콘야”
  • Kurdish: “Konya”
  • Kurdish: “Qonya”
  • Kurdish: “Qonye”
  • Lak: “Къонья”
  • Latin: “Iconium”
  • Latvian: “Konja”
  • Lithuanian: “Konija”
  • Lithuanian: “Konja”
  • Lithuanian: “Konya”
  • Low German: “Konya”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Konya”
  • Macedonian: “Конија”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Konya”
  • Malay: “Konya”
  • Malayalam: “Konya”
  • Malayalam: “കോന്യ”
  • Maltese: “Konya”
  • Marathi: “कोंनया”
  • Mazanderani: “قونیه”
  • Minangkabau: “Konya”
  • Mingrelian: “კონია”
  • Nauru: “Konya”
  • Northern Frisian: “Konya”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Konya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Konya”
  • Norwegian: “Konya”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Konya”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Iconium”
  • Ossetian: “Конья”
  • Persian: “قونیه”
  • Polish: “Iconium”
  • Polish: “Ikonion”
  • Polish: “Ikonium”
  • Polish: “Konya”
  • Portuguese: “Cónia”
  • Portuguese: “Cônia”
  • Portuguese: “Icónio”
  • Portuguese: “Icônio”
  • Portuguese: “Iconium”
  • Portuguese: “Konya”
  • Pushto: “قونیه”
  • Romanian: “Konya”
  • Russian: “Иконий”
  • Russian: “Иконион”
  • Russian: “Икониум”
  • Russian: “Икония”
  • Russian: “Конья”
  • Scots: “Konya”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Konya”
  • Serbian: “Cogna”
  • Serbian: “Ikonija”
  • Serbian: “Konya”
  • Serbian: “Иконион”
  • Serbian: “Конија”
  • Serbian: “Коња”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Konya”
  • Sinhala: “කොන්යා”
  • Slovak: “Konya”
  • Slovenian: “Konya”
  • Somali: “Konya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قونیه”
  • Spanish: “Iconio”
  • Spanish: “Iconium”
  • Spanish: “Konya”
  • Swahili: “Jimbo la Konya”
  • Swahili: “Konya”
  • Swedish: “Iconium”
  • Swedish: “Ikonion”
  • Swedish: “Ikónion”
  • Swedish: “Ikonium”
  • Swedish: “Konia”
  • Swedish: “Koniah”
  • Swedish: “Konieh”
  • Swedish: “Konija”
  • Swedish: “Konije”
  • Swedish: “Konya”
  • Swedish: “Qunia”
  • Tajik: “Қуния”
  • Talysh: “Konijə”
  • Talysh: “Konya”
  • Tamil: “கொன்யா”
  • Tamil: “கோன்யா”
  • Tatar: “Конья”
  • Telugu: “కోన్యా”
  • Thai: “คอนยา”
  • Turkish: “Augusta İconium”
  • Turkish: “Claudiconium”
  • Turkish: “Cogna”
  • Turkish: “Cogne”
  • Turkish: “Colonia Selie”
  • Turkish: “Conia”
  • Turkish: “Conium”
  • Turkish: “İcconium”
  • Turkish: “İkonion”
  • Turkish: “İkonium”
  • Turkish: “Konia olarak da bilinir.”
  • Turkish: “Konien”
  • Turkish: “Konya”
  • Turkish: “Stancona”
  • Turkish: “Tokonion”
  • Turkish: “Ycconium”
  • Twi: “Konya”
  • Udmurt: “Конья”
  • Uighur: “قۇنىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Іконія”
  • Ukrainian: “Конья”
  • Urdu: “قونیہ”
  • Uzbek: “Ko‘niya”
  • Uzbek: “Ko’niya”
  • Uzbek: “Ko`niya”
  • Uzbek: “Koʻniya”
  • Uzbek: “Konya”
  • Venetian: “Konya”
  • Vietnamese: “Konya”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Konya”
  • Welsh: “Konya”
  • Western Armenian: “Քոնիա”
  • Western Mari: “Конья”
  • Western Panjabi: “قونیہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “科尼亚 (土耳其)”
  • Wu Chinese: “科尼亚（土耳其）”
  • Yue Chinese: “科尼亞”
  • “Konya”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Konya”. Photo: Emadnemati, CC BY-SA 4.0.