Bigadiç district
Sign in to saveBigadiç is a municipality and district of Balıkesir Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,108 km2, and its population is 48,917 (2022). As former Ancient bishopric of Achyraus, it remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
Key facts
- Turkey place.type
- metro district
- Turkey place.name
- Bigadiç
- Turkey place.image_map
- Balıkesir location Bigadiç.svg
- Turkey place.map_caption
- Map showing Bigadiç District in Balıkesir Province
- Turkey place.province
- Balıkesir
- Turkey place.leader_party
- AKP
- Turkey place.leader_name
- İsmail Avcu
- Turkey place.area_total_km2
- 1108
- Turkey place.elevation_m
- 160
- Turkey place.population_total
- 48917
- Turkey place.population_as_of
- 2022
- Turkey place.postal_code
- 10440
- Turkey place.area_code
- 0266
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Turkey
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Balıkesir Province
- Continent
- Asia
- Official language
- Turkish
- Population
- 49887
- Area
- 1108
- Elevation
- 165
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Official website
- www.bigadic.gov.tr
- Licence plate code
- 10
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- Commons category
- Bigadiç
- urban population
- 8955
- rural population
- 37981
- inception
- 1943-07-01
Sources (9)
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Composition
- Ecclesiastical history
- Titular see
- Notes and references
- Sources and external links
Bigadiç is a municipality and district of Balıkesir Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,108 km2, and its population is 48,917 (2022). As former Ancient bishopric of Achyraus, it remains a Latin Catholic titular see.
Bigadiç has the largest Boron reserves of both Turkey and the world. Also, villages of Bigadiç have natural thermal water reserves which contains Selenium and Sulfur.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bigadiç district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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