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 Çankaya—792,189, 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 Ankara, west-central Turkey.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Çankaya is GeoNames ID 6955677. Its recorded administrative path is Cankaya → Ankara → Türkiye, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Çankaya 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 2025-05-11; 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, Çankaya ranks 699 by recorded population. Inside the 26 selected Türkiye entries it ranks 13; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 140. Its 792,189 population value is 1.00 times the 792,110 median for the country cohort and 0.88 times the 902,588 regional median. Çankaya sits in the second quarter of this atlas's Türkiye population cohort. Çankaya'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.
Çankaya's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Ankara at 0.75 km with 3,517,182 recorded people; Eskişehir at 200.558 km with 921,630 recorded people; Konya at 229.905 km with 1,433,861 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 229.155 km. Compared with Ankara, Çankaya's recorded population is 0.23 times as large. Against Çankaya, Ankara follows Ankara → Türkiye in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Türkiye cohort, uses the shared Europe/Istanbul identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Çankaya's. Against Çankaya, 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 populated place. Its recorded population is above Çankaya's. Against Çankaya, 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 populated place. Its recorded population is above Çankaya's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 5 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Çankaya'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 6955677, the coordinate pair 39.9179 / 32.8627, country rank 13 of 26, and neighbor GeoNames 323786 at 0.75 km bind Çankaya to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Çankaya's reference point is 39.9179° north and 32.8627° 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. Çankaya's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Çankaya's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Çankaya's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames records Çankaya 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
Çankaya's closest other entries in this atlas are Ankara (0.75 km), Eskişehir (200.558 km), Konya (229.905 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2025-05-11; 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.