Kırıkkale
thumb|Kırıkkale Square Nur Mosque Kırıkkale is a city in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. It is the seat of Kırıkkale Province and Kırıkkale District. Its population is 186,960 (2022). It is located 80 km east of Ankara, the capital city of Turkey. The name of the city means broken castle.
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Kırıkkale is a city in Central Anatolia, Turkey, located 80 kilometers east of the capital Ankara, with a population of about 187,000 people as of 2022. It serves as the administrative center for both Kırıkkale Province and Kırıkkale District, and its name translates to "broken castle."
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- Locality
- Kırıkkale Belediyesi
- Region
- Kırıkkale
- Country
- Türkiye
- Population
- 186,960
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thumb|Kırıkkale Square Nur Mosque Kırıkkale is a city in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. It is the seat of Kırıkkale Province and Kırıkkale District. Its population is 186,960 (2022). It is located 80 km east of Ankara, the capital city of Turkey. The name of the city means broken castle.
The town of Kırıkkale is located on the Ankara-Kayseri railway near the Kızılırmak River in central Turkey. Formerly a village, it owes its rapid rise in population mainly to the establishment of steel mills in the 1950s. These works, among the largest in the country, specialize in high-quality alloy steel and machinery. In the 1960s, chemical plants were added and in 1986, the Tüpraş Kırıkkale Oil Refinery was established.