Turkey Cities

  The urbanization in Turkey is far advanced, 74% of the total population live in a city. The southeast and northeast of the country are very sparsely populated, the bulk of lives and works in the major metropolitan centers on the West Coast and the region around the Quadrangle Ankara, Adana, Kayseri and Konya in central Turkey. 

Capital and seat of government is located in Central Anatolia Ankara with a population of 4,466,756. It also has the Grand National Assembly seat, and the Command of Armed Forces. Ankara is one of the major industrial and service metropolitan centers of Turkey and university town, including sitting here by Mustafa Kemal founded in 1936 Ankara Üniversitesi, the oldest university in Ankara. 

Mega-metropolis, the largest city in the country and also the most important economic and cultural metropolitan center of the country is located on the Bosphorus Istanbul (formerly Constantinople), which is divided by the Straits and will be on two continents over an area of approximately 1,269 km ² covers. The actual city has 11,174,257 inhabitants, throughout the metropolitan region, which is completely on the floor of the Istanbul province, is living in an area of approximately 5,220 km ² around 12,573,836 people. This makes Istanbul one of the largest cities in the world. 

Izmir with 3,739,353 inhabitants is the third largest Turkish city Istanbul and has the second largest commercial port. Bursa (2,439,876 inhabitants), the former capital of the Ottoman Empire, is now a major business location for the automotive and textile industries. The main city in southeastern Turkey, Diyarbakir. Diyarbakir (1,460,714 inhabitants) has after the Chinese Wall the largest and best preserved fortifications in the world. It consists mostly of basalt. The plant is in an inner and an outer section subdivided. Other major cities are Adana (2,006,650 inhabitants), Gaziantep (1,560,023 inhabitants), Konya and the tourist center of Antalya (Booth 2007).