Ankara Province

Ankara Province (, ) is a province and metropolitan municipality of Turkey with the capital city Ankara. Its area is 25,632 km2, and its population is 5,782,285 (2022).

History

The site of the modern city has been home to settlements by many historic Anatolian civilizations in antiquity and classical times, including Phrygians, Lydians, Persians and Alexander the Great, Romans, and Galatians. The city of Ankara became a fortified stronghold of the Byzantines; it fell to the Seljuk Turks and later the Ottoman Empire. It was finally chosen by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the Turkish National Movement as the site of the provisional government and the Turkish parliament in 1920, and in 1923 as the capital city of the newly established Republic of Turkey.

Geography

Ankara is mostly in the Central Anatolia region, and partly in the Black Sea region. Ankara has mountain forests to its north, and the dry plain of Konya to its south. The province is irrigated by the Kızılırmak and Sakarya River systems, the Sarıyar reservoir and many natural lakes and pools. 50% of the land is used for agriculture, 28% is forest and another 10% is meadow and grazing land. Lake Tuz, the second largest lake in Turkey, partly lies in the Şereflikoçhisar district of the province. The highest point of the province is the 2,015 meters tall Işık Mountain in the Kızılcahamam district.

Districts

Ankara has 25 districts.

Number Plates(İlçe Kayıt) DistrictPopulation(31.12.2022)Area (km2)Density(per km2)1872Akyurt40,6253691101130Altındağ413,9941233,3651157Ayaş12,9981041121167Bala20,5211,851111187Beypazarı48,3571,697281227Çamlıdere8,100782101231Çankaya942,5534831,9511260Çubuk95,4491,198801302Elmadağ44,379647691922Etimesgut614,8912732,2521924Evren2,952222131744Gölbaşı150,0471,3641101365Güdül8,079540151387Haymana26,0162,164121815Kahramankazan59,1235471081427Kalecik12,7941,110121745Keçiören939,2791595,9071473Kızılcahamam26,8721,623171746Mamak687,5353212,1421539Nallıhan26,5532,079131578Polatlı128,3783,618352034Pursaklar162,3891699611747Sincan572,6098806511658Şereflikoçhisar33,1402,155151723Yenimahalle704,6522193,218ANKARA City (9 districts / urban)Altındağ, Çankaya, Etimesgut, Gölbaşı, Keçiören, Mamak, Pursaklar, Sincan, Yenimahalle5,187,9493,9911,300TOTAL5,782,28525,632 226

District 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1997 2007 2012 2017 2022 City center 130,520 114,419 94,964 77,168 Akyurt 12,535 16,229 23,354 27,201 32,863 40,625 Altındağ 229,228 348,254 526,072 624,313 406,948 422,668 394,632 370,735 363,744 371,366 413,994 Ayaş 16,936 17,581 18,325 17,202 21,762 20,806 18,352 13,159 13,087 12,289 12,998 Bala 41,415 42,206 44,735 45,158 46,940 37,612 35,295 23,505 17,397 21,682 20,521 Beypazarı 34,297 36,435 37,140 38,568 42,008 45,977 46,903 46,884 46,738 48,476 48,357 Çamlıdere 19,596 18,982 19,444 18,521 18,341 19,365 20,992 9,329 6,739 7,389 8,100 Çankaya 496,953 683,210 927,809 968,668 667,351 714,330 765,354 792,189 832,075 921,999 942,553 Çubuk 47,601 49,539 53,114 54,616 57,716 51,964 63,700 83,826 82,614 90,063 95,449 Elmadağ 20,526 23,852 25,893 30,354 32,967 38,032 38,682 48,013 43,856 45,513 44,379 Etimesgut 70,800 127,395 289,601 425,947 566,500 614,891 Evren 6,928 6,506 4,027 3,011 2,753 2,952 Gölbaşı 31,671 43,522 49,526 73,670 110,643 130,363 150,047 Güdül 18,314 18,153 18,919 15,688 19,460 18,698 22,473 10,676 8,656 8,050 8,079 Haymana 48,908 51,256 53,275 56,171 60,823 55,527 49,730 39,310 31,058 27,277 26,016 Kalecik 28,665 29,784 27,871 28,446 27,349 25,043 25,870 17,007 13,648 12,897 12,794 Kahramankazan 21,837 26,076 36,147 43,308 52,079 59,123 Keçiören 443,390 536,168 615,448 843,535 840,809 917,759 939,279 Kızılcahamam 42,649 36,645 36,686 35,513 32,162 34,456 37,906 25,288 24,635 24,947 26,872 Mamak 379,460 410,359 405,066 503,663 559,597 637,935 687,535 Nallıhan 31,141 32,713 32,769 34,389 35,718 36,779 39,952 31,768 30,299 28,621 26,553 Polatlı 63,895 74,366 75,332 86,865 95,401 99,965 104,203 118,454 119,349 124,464 128,378 Pursaklar 119,593 142,317 162,389 Şereflikoçhisar 69,201 75,675 82,207 79,330 87,893 60,701 55,443 34,808 35,042 33,599 33,140 Sincan 59,451 101,118 220,415 413,030 479,454 524,222 572,609 Yenimahalle 122,166 175,528 246,154 330,908 382,205 351,436 507,242 614,778 687,042 659,603 704,652 Total 1,644,302 2,041,658 2,585,293 2,854,689 3,306,327 3,236,626 3,693,390 4,466,756 4,965,542 5,445,026 5,782,285

Climate The climate is hot and dry in summer, rainy in spring and autumn, cold and snowy in winter, wetter in the north of the province than the drier plains to the south. The annual precipitation in the city of Ankara located the center of the province is , the annual precipitation of Kızılcahamam located in the north of the province is , and the annual precipitation of Şereflikoçhisar located in the southeast of the province is .

Demographics

Places of interest The Mount Sarıçal National Park () is located next to Çulhalar village in the northeast, northwest of Nallıhan and northwest of Ankara. One of the most beautiful lakes of Ankara is Karagöl in Çubuk.

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