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 Esenler—520,235, 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 İstanbul, northwestern Turkey.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Esenler is GeoNames ID 747340. Its recorded administrative path is Esenler → Istanbul → Türkiye, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Esenler 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, Esenler ranks 1,090 by recorded population. Inside the 26 selected Türkiye entries it ranks 24; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 227. Its 520,235 population value is 0.66 times the 792,110 median for the country cohort and 0.58 times the 902,588 regional median. Esenler sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Türkiye entries. Esenler's recorded value is materially below the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Esenler's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Bağcılar at 1.708 km with 740,069 recorded people; Bahçelievler at 4.782 km with 576,799 recorded people; Istanbul at 6.99 km with 15,701,602 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 5.282 km. Compared with Bağcılar, Esenler's recorded population is 0.70 times as large. Against Esenler, Bağcılar follows Bagcilar → Istanbul → 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is above Esenler's. Against Esenler, Bahçelievler follows Bahcelievler → Istanbul → 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is above Esenler's. Against Esenler, 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 Esenler's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 13 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Esenler'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 747340, the coordinate pair 41.0435 / 28.8762, country rank 24 of 26, and neighbor GeoNames 751324 at 1.708 km bind Esenler to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Esenler's reference point is 41.0435° north and 28.8762° 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. Esenler's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Esenler's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Esenler's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Esenler, 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
Esenler's closest other entries in this atlas are Bağcılar (1.708 km), Bahçelievler (4.782 km), Istanbul (6.99 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.