1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Türkiye
Compare this sourced profile of Nilüfer, 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 Nilüfer—536,365, 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 Bursa, northwestern Turkey.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Nilüfer is GeoNames ID 10346824. Its recorded administrative path is Niluefer → Bursa Province → Türkiye, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Nilüfer 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 2026-04-29; 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, Nilüfer ranks 1,048 by recorded population. Inside the 26 selected Türkiye entries it ranks 21; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 219. Its 536,365 population value is 0.68 times the 792,110 median for the country cohort and 0.59 times the 902,588 regional median. Nilüfer sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Türkiye entries. Nilüfer'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.
Nilüfer's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Bursa at 12.438 km with 3,101,833 recorded people; Küçükçekmece at 87.258 km with 792,030 recorded people; Bahçelievler at 87.782 km with 576,799 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 75.344 km. Compared with Bursa, Nilüfer's recorded population is 0.17 times as large. Against Nilüfer, Bursa follows Osmangazi → Bursa Province → 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 second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Nilüfer's. Against Nilüfer, Küçükçekmece follows Kuecuekcekmece → Istanbul → 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 populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Nilüfer's. Against Nilüfer, Bahçelievler follows Bahcelievler → Istanbul → 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 populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Nilüfer's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 183 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Nilüfer's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter 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 10346824, the coordinate pair 40.2140 / 28.9157, country rank 21 of 26, and neighbor GeoNames 750269 at 12.438 km bind Nilüfer to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Nilüfer's reference point is 40.2140° north and 28.9157° east. The IANA identifier Europe/Istanbul is shared by 26 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Nilüfer's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Nilüfer's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Nilüfer's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Nilüfer, 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
Nilüfer's closest other entries in this atlas are Bursa (12.438 km), Küçükçekmece (87.258 km), Bahçelievler (87.782 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-29; 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.