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: “Augusta İconium”, “Claudiconium”, “Cogna”, “Cogne”, “Colonia Selie”, “Conia”, “Cónia”, “Conium”, “İcconium”, “Iconi”, “Icónio”, “Icônio”, “Icònion”, “Icònium”, “Ikonija”, “Ikonijum”, “Ikonion”, “Ikónion”, “İkonion”, “Ikoniow”, “Ikonium”, “İkonium”, “Jimbo la Konya”, “Julitta”, “Ko‘niya”, “Ko’niya”, “Ko`niya”, “Konia olarak da bilinir.”, “Koniah”, “Konieh”, “Konien”, “Konije”, “Konium”, “Konyah”, “Kuniyah”, “Mint of Iconium”, “Qonia”, “Quiricus”, “Qunia”, “Stancona”, “Tokonion”, “Ycconium”, “Иконий”, “Иконион”, “Икониум”, “Икония”, “Іконія”, “Коња”, “אקוניום”, “قوني”, “قۆنیا”, “کۆنیا”, “इकोनियोन”, “イコニウム”, “イコニオン”, “コニヤ”, “以哥念”, and “康亞”
  • Historically known as: “Koni”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Mevlana Museum and Alâeddin Mosque.

Museum
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The Mevlâna Museum, in Konya, Turkey, started life…

Mosque
Photo: Christian Mathis, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is the principal monument on Alaaddin Hill in the centre of Konya, .

Museum
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is a 13th-century madrasa…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Selçuklu and Karatay.

Town
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is a municipality and district of , .

Town
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is a municipality and district of , .

Town
is a municipality and district of , .

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
UN/LOCODE
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: “قونية”
  • Armenian: “Կոնիա”
  • Armenian: “Քոնիա”
  • Armenian: “Քոնյա”
  • Asturian: “Konya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Konya”
  • Bashkir: “Конья”
  • Basque: “Konya”
  • Belarusian: “Конья”
  • Bengali: “কনিয়া”
  • Bengali: “কোনিয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Konya”
  • Breton: “Konya”
  • Bulgarian: “Кония”
  • Bulgarian: “Коня”
  • Catalan: “Iconium”
  • Catalan: “Konya”
  • Cebuano: “Konya”
  • Central Kurdish: “قۆنیە”
  • Chechen: “Кони”
  • Chechen: “Конья”
  • Chinese: “科尼亚”
  • Chinese: “科尼亞”
  • Croatian: “Konya”
  • Czech: “Konya”
  • Danish: “Konya”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Qonya”
  • Dutch: “Konya”
  • Eastern Mari: “Конья”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “قونيه”
  • Erzya: “Конья”
  • Esperanto: “Konjao”
  • Esperanto: “Konya”
  • Estonian: “Konya”
  • Finnish: “Konya”
  • French: “Konya”
  • Galician: “Konya”
  • Georgian: “კონია”
  • German: “Konya”
  • Gilaki: “قۊنيه”
  • Greek: “Ικόνιο”
  • Gujarati: “કોન્યા”
  • Hausa: “Konya”
  • Hebrew: “קוניה”
  • Hindi: “कोन्या”
  • Hungarian: “Konya”
  • Ido: “Konya”
  • Indonesian: “Konya”
  • Interlingue: “Konya”
  • Irish: “Konya”
  • Italian: “Iconio”
  • Italian: “Konya”
  • Japanese: “コンヤ”
  • Javanese: “Konya”
  • Kannada: “ಕೊನ್ಯಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಕೋಣ್ಯ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Konya”
  • Kazakh: “Кония”
  • Kazakh: “Конья”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Konya”
  • Korean: “코니아”
  • Korean: “콘야”
  • Kurdish: “Qonye”
  • Lak: “Къонья”
  • Latin: “Iconium”
  • Latvian: “Konja”
  • Lithuanian: “Konija”
  • Low German: “Konya”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Konya”
  • Macedonian: “Конија”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Konya”
  • Malay: “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”
  • Oromo: “Konya”
  • Ossetian: “Конья”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੋਨਿਆ”
  • Persian: “قونیه”
  • Polish: “Konya”
  • Portuguese: “Cônia”
  • Portuguese: “Konya”
  • Pushto: “قونيه”
  • Pushto: “قونیه”
  • Romanian: “Konya”
  • Russian: “Конья”
  • Scots: “Konya”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Konya”
  • Serbian: “Конија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Konya”
  • Sinhala: “කොන්යා”
  • Slovak: “Konya”
  • Slovenian: “Konya”
  • Somali: “Konya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قونیه”
  • Spanish: “Konya”
  • Swahili: “Konya”
  • Swedish: “Konya”
  • Tajik: “Конья”
  • Tajik: “Қуния”
  • Talysh: “Konijə”
  • Talysh: “Konya”
  • Tamil: “கொன்யா”
  • Tamil: “கோன்யா”
  • Tatar: “Конья”
  • Telugu: “కోన్యా”
  • Thai: “คอนยา”
  • Turkish: “Konya”
  • Twi: “Konya”
  • Udmurt: “Конья”
  • Uighur: “قۇنىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Конья”
  • Urdu: “قونیہ”
  • Uzbek: “Koʻniya”
  • Uzbek: “Konya”
  • Venetian: “Konya”
  • Vietnamese: “Konya”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Konya”
  • Welsh: “Konya”
  • Western Armenian: “Գոնեա”
  • Western Armenian: “Իկոնիոն” (historical)
  • Western Armenian: “Ղոնիա”
  • 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: “康雅”
  • Yue Chinese: “科尼亞”
  • “Konya”

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