Safranbolu

Safranbolu is a town in the region of Turkey, about 200 km north of Ankara and 100 km south of the Black Sea coast, with a population in 2022 of 52,999. Its well-preserved old town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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  • Type: Town with 52,700 residents
  • Description: district and town in Karabük Province, Turkey
  • Also known as: “Za’firanborlu”, “Zağferanbolu”, and “Zağfiranborlu”

Places of Interest

Highlights include İzzet Mehmet Pasha Mosque and Turkish Bath.

Mosque
Photo: Nedim Ardoğa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an 18th-century mosque in Safranbolu of , .

Sauna
Photo: Surdurulebiliryasam, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a sauna.

Mosque
Photo: İmmortalance, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kılavuzlar.

Suburb
is a neighbourhood of the town , Karabük District, , . Its population is 5,137. The village is situated between Karabük and Safranbolu. is situated 4 km southwest of Safranbolu.

Safranbolu

Latitude
41.2457° or 41° 14′ 44″ north
Longitude
32.693° or 32° 41′ 35″ east
Population
52,700
Elevation
494 metres (1,621 feet)
United Nations Location Code
TR SAF
Open location code
8GHJ6MWV+75
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27004276
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
740430
Wiki­data ID
Q192501
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Safranbolu” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “زعفران بول”
  • Arabic: “زَعْفَرَان بُول”
  • Arabic: “زعفرانبول”
  • Arabic: “مدينة الزعفران”
  • Armenian: “Սաֆրանբոլու”
  • Asturian: “Safranbolu (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Safranbolu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Safranbolu”
  • Basque: “Safranbolu”
  • Belarusian: “Сафранбалу”
  • Bosnian: “Safranbolu”
  • Bulgarian: “Сафранболу”
  • Catalan: “Safranbolu”
  • Cebuano: “Safranbolu İlçesi”
  • Chechen: “Сафранболу”
  • Chinese: “Safranbolu”
  • Chinese: “沙夫蘭波魯”
  • Chinese: “番紅花城”
  • Chinese: “番红花城”
  • Chinese: “萨夫兰博卢”
  • Chinese: “薩夫蘭博盧”
  • Croatian: “Safranbolu”
  • Czech: “Safranbolu”
  • Dutch: “Safranbolu (stad)”
  • Dutch: “Safranbolu”
  • Dutch: “Tarakliborlu”
  • Dutch: “Taraklıborlu”
  • Dutch: “Zalifre”
  • Finnish: “Safranbolu”
  • French: “Safranbolu”
  • French: “Zafranboli”
  • Gagauz: “Safranbolu”
  • Georgian: “საფრანბოლუ”
  • German: “Safranbolu”
  • Gilaki: “سافران‌بؤلۊ”
  • Greek: “Θεοδωρούπολη”
  • Greek: “Σαφράμπολη”
  • Greek: “Σαφρανβολου”
  • Greek: “Σαφρανμπολού”
  • Hebrew: “ספרנבולו”
  • Hindi: “साफ्रांबोलू”
  • Hungarian: “Safranbolu”
  • Indonesian: “Safranbolu”
  • Irish: “Safranbolu”
  • Italian: “Safranbolu”
  • Japanese: “サフランボル”
  • Japanese: “サフランボル市街”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Safranbolu”
  • Kazakh: “Safranbolw”
  • Kazakh: “Сафранболу”
  • Kazakh: “سافرانبولۋ”
  • Korean: “사프란볼루”
  • Kurdish: “Safranbolu”
  • Kurdish: “سافرانبۆلو”
  • Lithuanian: “Safranbolu”
  • Macedonian: “Сафранболу”
  • Malay: “Safranbolu”
  • Maltese: “Safranbolu”
  • Mazanderani: “سافران‌بولو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Safranbolu”
  • Minangkabau: “Safranbolu”
  • Mingrelian: “საფრანბოლუ”
  • Nepali: “सफरानबोलुको सहर”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Safranbolu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Safranbolu”
  • Norwegian: “Safranbolu”
  • Persian: “سافران بولو”
  • Persian: “سافران‌بولو”
  • Polish: “Safranbolu”
  • Portuguese: “Saframbolu”
  • Portuguese: “Safranbolu”
  • Russian: “Сафранболу”
  • Serbian: “Сафранболу”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Safranbolu”
  • Slovak: “Safranbolu”
  • Slovenian: “Safranbolu”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سافران بولو”
  • Spanish: “Safranbolu”
  • Swahili: “Safranbolu”
  • Swedish: “Safranbolu”
  • Tatar: “Сафранболу”
  • Turkish: “Safranbolu”
  • Turkish: “Taraklı Borlu”
  • Ukrainian: “Сафранболу”
  • Urdu: “سفرانبولو”
  • Vietnamese: “Safranbolu”
  • Western Mari: “Сафранболу”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع سافرانبولو”

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