Bakırköy
Sign in to saveBakırköy is a municipality and district in the European part of Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 29 km2, and its population is 226,685 (2022). Bakırköy lies between the D.100 highway (locally known as E-5) and the coast of the Sea of Marmara. Bakırköy houses a large psychiatric hospital, and is an important shopping and commercial center.
Key facts
- Turkey place.type
- metro district
- Turkey place.name
- Bakırköy
- Turkey place.image_skyline
- Bakırköy, Istanbul.jpg
- Turkey place.image_caption
- Bakırköy district center (2025)
- Turkey place.image_map
- Istanbul location Bakırköy.svg
- Turkey place.map_caption
- Map showing Bakırköy District in Istanbul Province
- Turkey place.province
- Istanbul
- Turkey place.leader_party
- CHP
- Turkey place.leader_name
- Ayşegül Ovalıoğlu
- Turkey place.area_total_km2
- 29
- Turkey place.population_total
- 226685
- Turkey place.population_as_of
- 2022
- Turkey place.postal_code
- 34140
- Turkey place.area_code
- 0212
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Official website
T.C. Bakırköy Kaymakamlığı
Kaymakamlık, Devlet Hizmetleri, Nüfus, Sosyal Yardımlaşma, Tapu, Malmüdürlüğü
bakirkoy.gov.tr →Link to the official site · 8,029 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Turkey
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Istanbul Province
- Continent
- Europe
- Official language
- Turkish
- Area
- 29
- Elevation
- 21
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Body of water
- Sea of Marmara
- Official website
- www.bakirkoy.gov.tr
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- Commons category
- Bakırköy
- topic's main category
- Category:Bakırköy
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Bakırköy
- urban population
- 228759
- rural population
- 2138
- name in kana
- バクルキョイ
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Geography
- History
- Composition
- Today
- Economy
- Climate
- Notable people
- Places of interest
- Sport
- Bakırköy municipality mayors
- Notes, References
- Sources
- External links
Bakırköy is a municipality and district in the European part of Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 29 km2, and its population is 226,685 (2022). Bakırköy lies between the D.100 highway (locally known as E-5) and the coast of the Sea of Marmara. Bakırköy houses a large psychiatric hospital, and is an important shopping and commercial center.
== Geography == Bakırköy, which was one of the largest districts of Istanbul with an area of 275 km² until 1989 and was bounded by Çatalca to the west, Eyüpsultan and Gaziosmanpaşa to the north, shrunk both in terms of population and area with the local elections of 1989 and 1992, first with the separation of Küçükçekmece and then Bahçelievler, Bağcılar and Güngören districts. Nowadays Bakırköy has a surface area of 29.22 km² with its new borders.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bakırköy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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