Sultangazi
Sign in to saveSultangazi is municipality and district of Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 37 km2, and its population is 542,531 (2022). To the west are the neighbourhoods of Esenler and Başakşehir, Gaziosmanpaşa is to the south and Eyüpsultan is to the north and east. One border of the district is formed by the TEM highway.
Key facts
- Turkey place.type
- metro district
- Turkey place.name
- Sultangazi
- Turkey place.image_map
- Istanbul location Sultangazi.svg
- Turkey place.map_caption
- Map showing Sultangazi District in Istanbul Province
- Turkey place.image_logo
- Sultangazi Belediyesi logo.svg
- Turkey place.province
- Istanbul
- Turkey place.leader_party
- AKP
- Turkey place.leader_name
- Abdurrahman Dursun
- Turkey place.area_total_km2
- 37
- Turkey place.population_total
- 542531
- Turkey place.population_as_of
- 2022
- Turkey place.postal_code
- 34260, 34265, 34270
- Turkey place.area_code
- 0212
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Turkey
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Istanbul Province
- Continent
- Europe
- Official language
- Turkish
- Area
- 37
- Elevation
- 50
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Official website
- www.sultangazi.gov.tr
- Image
- Sultangazi 2012 February Snow Day - panoramio.jpg
- Dialing code
- 212
- Licence plate code
- 34
Show 6 more facts
- name in kana
- スルタンガージ
- Commons category
- Sultangazi
- topic's main category
- Category:Sultangazi
- inception
- 2008-03-22
- postal code
- 34000–34099
- urban population
- 543380
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Sultangazi is municipality and district of Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 37 km2, and its population is 542,531 (2022). To the west are the neighbourhoods of Esenler and Başakşehir, Gaziosmanpaşa is to the south and Eyüpsultan is to the north and east. One border of the district is formed by the TEM highway.
In 2008 the district Sultangazi was created from parts of the districts Gaziosmanpaşa, Eyüpsultan and Esenler. The name of "Sultangazi" comes from "Sultan" word part of Sultançiftliği (meaning farm of the Sultan) and the neighbourhood of Gazi, with "gazi" the Turkish for a venerated veteran of war.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sultangazi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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