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Balikesir
Balıkesir · local name
39.65° N, 27.89° E
- Population
- 261,516
- Population from Natural Earth (POP_MAX). The source does not state which year the figure belongs to, so no year is shown.
- Population rank
- 29 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
- Balikesir 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
- 70 m
- Elevation above sea level from Wikidata (P2044), rounded to the metre. A city whose sources give two different elevations shows no row.
- Area
- 1,454 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.
- Administrative unit
- Balıkesir Province
- The administrative unit Wikidata files this city under (P131), one level below the state. The state itself is shown on its own row and is not repeated here; a city filed under more than three units shows no row at all.
- Time zone
- Europe/Istanbul
Traveler brief
Only what this atlas can source — no hours, prices, visas or safety advice.
Practical bearings for Balikesir, from the same records as the rest of this page.
No places in Balikesir have been recorded yet. The map and the country page still carry its context.
Connections
Sister cities
- Makhachkala
- and 1 more