Ankara_Province

Ankara Province

Ankara Province

Province of Turkey

For other uses, see Ankara (disambiguation).
This article is about the province of Turkey. For the capital city of Turkey, see Ankara.

Ankara Province (Turkish: Ankara ili, pronounced [ˈaŋkaɾa iˈli]) is a province and metropolitan municipality of Turkey with the capital city Ankara. Its area is 25,632 km2,[2] and its population is 5,782,285 (2022).[1]

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History

Main article: History of Ankara

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.

Districts

Ankara has 25 districts.[1]

Ankara Province
Ankara City
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^ The population of the city center was not included after 1980, due to the fact that Ankara received the metropolitan status.

Geography

Köppen map of Ankara Province and surrounding regions:[16]
  •   BSk
  •   Csb
  •   Dfb
  •   Dsb

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.

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 415 mm (16.3 in),[17] the annual precipitation of Kızılcahamam located in the north of the province is 592 mm (1.942 ft), and the annual precipitation of Şereflikoçhisar located in the southeast of the province is 357 mm (14.1 in).[18][19]

Places of interest

  • The Mount Sarıçal National Park (Turkish: Sarıçalı Dağı Milli Parkı) is located next to Çulhalar village in the northeast, 25 km (16 mi) northwest of Nallıhan and 185 km (115 mi) northwest of Ankara.[20]

See also

References

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    Genel Nüfus Sayımları
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    "1990 General Census" (PDF) (in Turkish). Turkish Statistical Institute. 1991. Archived (PDF) from the original on 31 August 2021.
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    "Present and future Köppen-Geiger climate classification maps at 1-km resolution". Nature Scientific Data. DOI:10.1038/sdata.2018.214.
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    "Present and future Köppen-Geiger climate classification maps at 1-km resolution". Nature Scientific Data. DOI:10.1038/sdata.2018.214.
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    "Ankara" (in Turkish). Turkish State Meteorological Service. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
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    "Kizilcahamam-Turkey". Weatherbase. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
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    "Coğrafi Yapı". Sereflikochisar.gov.tr. Archived from the original on 22 October 2007. Retrieved 10 October 2014.
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    "Sarıçalı Dağı Milli Park Olarak İlan Edildi" (in Turkish). Tarım ve Orman Bakanlığı 9. Bölge Müdürlüğü. 28 October 2021. Archived from the original on 10 April 2024. Retrieved 10 April 2024.


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