1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Türkiye
Compare this sourced profile of Sancaktepe, 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 Sancaktepe—489,848, 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 Sancaktepe is GeoNames ID 7628420. Its recorded administrative path is Sancaktepe → Istanbul → Türkiye, and GeoNames classifies the place as a populated place. Sancaktepe 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, Sancaktepe ranks 1,171 by recorded population. Inside the 26 selected Türkiye entries it ranks 25; inside the 243 entries in its broad region it ranks 236. Its 489,848 population value is 0.62 times the 792,110 median for the country cohort and 0.54 times the 902,588 regional median. Sancaktepe sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Türkiye entries. Sancaktepe'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.
Sancaktepe's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Ümraniye at 9.121 km with 573,265 recorded people; Üsküdar at 18.447 km with 524,452 recorded people; Istanbul at 23.714 km with 15,701,602 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 14.593 km. Compared with Ümraniye, Sancaktepe's recorded population is 0.85 times as large. Against Sancaktepe, Ümraniye follows UEmraniye → 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is above Sancaktepe's. Against Sancaktepe, Üsküdar follows UEskuedar → 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 the same populated place class. Its recorded population is above Sancaktepe's. Against Sancaktepe, Istanbul follows 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 first-order administrative seat rather than populated place. Its recorded population is above Sancaktepe's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 142 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Sancaktepe'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 7628420, the coordinate pair 41.0024 / 29.2319, country rank 25 of 26, and neighbor GeoNames 738377 at 9.121 km bind Sancaktepe to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Sancaktepe's reference point is 41.0024° north and 29.2319° 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. Sancaktepe's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Sancaktepe's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Sancaktepe's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Sancaktepe, 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
Sancaktepe's closest other entries in this atlas are Ümraniye (9.121 km), Üsküdar (18.447 km), Istanbul (23.714 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.