1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Türkiye
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01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Ankara—3,517,182, Europe/Istanbul, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: capital of Turkey.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Ankara is GeoNames ID 323786. Its recorded administrative path is Ankara → Türkiye, and GeoNames classifies the place as a capital of a political entity. Ankara occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2026-03-24; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Ankara ranks 98 by recorded population. Inside the 26 selected Türkiye entries it ranks 2; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 22. Its 3,517,182 population value is 4.44 times the 792,110 median for the country cohort and 3.90 times the 902,588 regional median. Ankara falls inside the leading tenth of this atlas's Türkiye population cohort. Ankara's recorded value reaches at least twice the country-cohort median in this snapshot. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Ankara's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Çankaya at 0.75 km with 792,189 recorded people; Eskişehir at 199.857 km with 921,630 recorded people; Konya at 230.019 km with 1,433,861 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 229.269 km. Compared with Çankaya, Ankara's recorded population is 4.44 times as large. Against Ankara, Çankaya follows Cankaya → Ankara → Türkiye in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Türkiye cohort, uses the shared Europe/Istanbul identifier, and carries populated place rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Ankara's. Against Ankara, Eskişehir follows Eskisehir → Türkiye in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Türkiye cohort, uses the shared Europe/Istanbul identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Ankara's. Against Ankara, Konya follows Konya → Türkiye in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Türkiye cohort, uses the shared Europe/Istanbul identifier, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than capital of a political entity. Its recorded population is below Ankara's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 5 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Ankara's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the tightest tenth of the atlas. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 323786, the coordinate pair 39.9199 / 32.8543, country rank 2 of 26, and neighbor GeoNames 6955677 at 0.75 km bind Ankara to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Ankara's reference point is 39.9199° north and 32.8543° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Istanbul is shared by 26 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLC is shared by 129 rows. Ankara's row carries a first-order administrative label but no second-order label. Ankara's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Ankara's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Ankara at 850 metres above sea level, a single reference value rather than a description of slopes across the city. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Ankara's closest other entries in this atlas are Çankaya (0.75 km), Eskişehir (199.857 km), Konya (230.019 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-03-24; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.