1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Türkiye
Compare this sourced profile of Bağcılar, Türkiye before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Bağcılar—740,069, 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: district of Istanbul.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Bağcılar is GeoNames ID 751324. Its recorded administrative path is Bagcilar → Istanbul → Türkiye, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Bağcılar 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 2026-06-22; 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, Bağcılar ranks 745 by recorded population. Inside the 26 selected Türkiye entries it ranks 17; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 153. Its 740,069 population value is 0.93 times the 792,110 median for the country cohort and 0.82 times the 902,588 regional median. Bağcılar sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Türkiye entries. Bağcılar's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Bağcılar's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Esenler at 1.708 km with 520,235 recorded people; Bahçelievler at 4.091 km with 576,799 recorded people; Istanbul at 8.285 km with 15,701,602 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 6.577 km. Compared with Esenler, Bağcılar's recorded population is 1.42 times as large. Against Bağcılar, Esenler follows Esenler → Istanbul → Türkiye in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Türkiye cohort, uses the shared Europe/Istanbul identifier, and carries the same populated place class. Its recorded population is below Bağcılar's. Against Bağcılar, Bahçelievler follows Bahcelievler → Istanbul → 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is below Bağcılar's. Against Bağcılar, Istanbul follows Istanbul → 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 first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Bağcılar's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 13 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Bağcılar'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 751324, the coordinate pair 41.0390 / 28.8567, country rank 17 of 26, and neighbor GeoNames 747340 at 1.708 km bind Bağcılar to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Bağcılar's reference point is 41.0390° north and 28.8567° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Istanbul is shared by 26 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPL is shared by 243 rows. Bağcılar's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Bağcılar's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Bağcılar's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Bağcılar, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Bağcılar's closest other entries in this atlas are Esenler (1.708 km), Bahçelievler (4.091 km), Istanbul (8.285 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-06-22; 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.