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.
WWW ankara.gov.tr

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.
District19651970197519801985199019972007201220172022
City center130,520114,41994,96477,168
Akyurt12,53516,22923,35427,20132,86340,625
Altındağ229,228348,254526,072624,313406,948422,668394,632370,735363,744371,366413,994
Ayaş16,93617,58118,32517,20221,76220,80618,35213,15913,08712,28912,998
Bala41,41542,20644,73545,15846,94037,61235,29523,50517,39721,68220,521
Beypazarı34,29736,43537,14038,56842,00845,97746,90346,88446,73848,47648,357
Çamlıdere19,59618,98219,44418,52118,34119,36520,9929,3296,7397,3898,100
Çankaya496,953683,210927,809968,668667,351714,330765,354792,189832,075921,999942,553
Çubuk47,60149,53953,11454,61657,71651,96463,70083,82682,61490,06395,449
Elmadağ20,52623,85225,89330,35432,96738,03238,68248,01343,85645,51344,379
Etimesgut70,800127,395289,601425,947566,500614,891
Evren6,9286,5064,0273,0112,7532,952
Gölbaşı31,67143,52249,52673,670110,643130,363150,047
Güdül18,31418,15318,91915,68819,46018,69822,47310,6768,6568,0508,079
Haymana48,90851,25653,27556,17160,82355,52749,73039,31031,05827,27726,016
Kalecik28,66529,78427,87128,44627,34925,04325,87017,00713,64812,89712,794
Kahramankazan21,83726,07636,14743,30852,07959,123
Keçiören443,390536,168615,448843,535840,809917,759939,279
Kızılcahamam42,64936,64536,68635,51332,16234,45637,90625,28824,63524,94726,872
Mamak379,460410,359405,066503,663559,597637,935687,535
Nallıhan31,14132,71332,76934,38935,71836,77939,95231,76830,29928,62126,553
Polatlı63,89574,36675,33286,86595,40199,965104,203118,454119,349124,464128,378
Pursaklar119,593142,317162,389
Şereflikoçhisar69,20175,67582,20779,33087,89360,70155,44334,80835,04233,59933,140
Sincan59,451101,118220,415413,030479,454524,222572,609
Yenimahalle122,166175,528246,154330,908382,205351,436507,242614,778687,042659,603704,652
Total1,644,3022,041,6582,585,2932,854,6893,306,3273,236,6263,693,3904,466,7564,965,5425,445,0265,782,285

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.

Places of interest