Local time
Wed, 8:34 PM GMT+3Europe/IstanbulCityCapital
Ankara
39.93° N, 32.86° E
- Population
- 3,716,000
- Population from Natural Earth (POP_MAX). The source does not state which year the figure belongs to, so no year is shown.
- Population rank
- 2 of 82
- Rank by Natural Earth population among the 82 cities of Türkiye in Terratlasia that have a population figure. Terratlasia does not list every city of Türkiye, so this is not a national ranking.
- Province
- Ankara Province
- Natural Earth marks this city as the capital of a first-level administrative unit; the province is the one whose boundary contains the city.
- Elevation
- 938 m
- Elevation above sea level from Wikidata (P2044), rounded to the metre. A city whose sources give two different elevations shows no row.
- Area
- 25,632 km²
- Total area from Wikidata (P2046). Where two statements differ by less than half a percent the smaller is shown; a larger disagreement (land area against total area, say) shows no row.
- Time zone
- Europe/Istanbul
- Places
- 10
- editorial
Traveler brief
Only what this atlas can source — no hours, prices, visas or safety advice.
Practical bearings for Ankara, from the same records as the rest of this page.
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Places 10
- AnıtkabirAtatürk's mausoleum on a hill above the capital, approached along a colonnaded avenue of stone lions.Landmark
- Museum of Anatolian CivilizationsHittite, Urartian and Phrygian collections in a restored bedesten below the castle — Anatolia in one building.History Museum
- Ankara CastleByzantine walls built from salvaged Roman stone, with the old town still living inside them.Castle
- Temple of Augustus and RomeCarries the fullest surviving text of the Res Gestae, the emperor's own account of his reign.Ancient Site
- Hacı Bayram MosqueThe city's principal pilgrimage mosque, built against the wall of the Roman temple.Mosque
- Kocatepe MosqueA classical Ottoman plan built in the 1980s, and the largest mosque in the capital.Mosque
- Roman Baths of AnkaraThe hypocaust floor of a 3rd-century bath complex, its brick pillars still standing in rows.Ruins
- CerModernContemporary art in the converted railway maintenance sheds beside the main station.Gallery
- AtakuleA 125-meter tower with a revolving restaurant, and the fixed point of the Çankaya skyline.Viewpoint
- Gençlik ParkRepublican-era pleasure grounds around an artificial lake, laid out on drained marshland.Park
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