Çankaya
Çankaya is a municipality and district of Ankara Province, Turkey.
Çankaya is a municipality and district of Ankara Province, Turkey. Its area is 483 km2, and its population is 942,553 (2022). It is home to many government buildings, including the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, as well as nearly all foreign embassies to Turkey. Çankaya is a cosmopolitan district and considered the cultural and financial center of Ankara. As of 2025 it was the most socioecomomically developed district in the country, it likely has the highest HDI too.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Çankaya
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Museum of Anatolian Civilizations
The Museum of Anatolian Civilizations is located on the south side of Ankara Castle in the Atpazarı area in Ankara, Turkey. It consists of the old Ottoman Mahmut Paşa bazaar storage building, and the Kurşunlu Han.
2.5 km · museum in Ankara, Turkey · Wikipedia - 02Ankara University
Ankara University is a public research university in Ankara, the capital of Turkey. It was the first higher education institution founded in Turkey after the formation of the Turkish republic in 1923.
4.9 km · state university in Ankara, Turkey · Wikipedia - 03Kocatepe Mosque
The Kocatepe Mosque is the largest mosque in Ankara, Turkey. It was built between 1967 and 1987 in the Kocatepe quarter in Kızılay, and its size and prominent situation have made it a landmark that can be seen from almost anywhere in central Ankara.
2.3 km · mosque in Ankara, Turkey · Wikipedia - 04Middle East Technical University
Middle East Technical University is a public research university located in Ankara, Turkey. The university offers 41 undergraduate programs across five faculties and 105 master's and 70 doctoral programs through five graduate schools.
9.7 km · state university in Ankara, Turkey · Wikipedia - 05Atakule
Atakule is a 125 m high communications and observation tower located in the Çankaya district of central Ankara, Turkey, and is one of the primary landmarks of the city. As the district of Çankaya is itself on a hill, the tower can be spotted from almost anywhere in the city during clear days.
4.9 km · observation tower and shopping mall in Ankara, Turkey · Wikipedia - 06National Library of Turkey
The National Library of Turkey is the national library of Turkey, located in Ankara. It was founded on April 15, 1946.
5.1 km · national library · Wikipedia - 07Ankara Castle
Ankara Castle is a historic fortification in the city of Ankara, Turkey, constructed in or after the 7th century. The earliest fortification on the site was constructed in the 8th century BC by the Phrygians and rebuilt in 278 BC by the Galatians.
2.6 km · castle in Ankara, Turkey · Wikipedia - 08Gazi University
Gazi University is a public research university located primarily in Ankara, Turkey. It was founded in 1926 by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk originally as the Gazi Education Institute, has evolved into a comprehensive institution.
5.8 km · state university in Ankara, Turkey · Wikipedia - 09Temple of Augustus in Ankara
The Temple of Augustus and Rome is an augusteum located in the Altındağ district of Ankara. It is thought to have been built around 25–20 BC. Besides being one of the most important Roman-period ruins in the city, it is also known for the Monumentum Ancyranum.
3.2 km · historic temple in Ankara · Wikipedia - 10Aslanhane Mosque
Aslanhāne Mosque aka Ahi Sherafeddin Mosque is a 13th-century mosque in Ankara, and one of the oldest in Turkey.
2.2 km · mosque in Ankara, Turkey · Wikipedia
Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Çankaya
- Airports
- Esenboğa (ESB), 24 km · Nevşehir Kapadokya (NAV), 191 km · Hasan Polatkan (AOE), 202 km
- Stations
- 2015 Ankara bombings, 3.8 km · Ankara railway station, 3.8 km
- Nevşehir → Çankaya215 km · quickest by road, 3h 39m · ₺510–680
- Eskişehir → Çankaya201 km · quickest by road, 3h 37m · ₺420–560
- Konya → Çankaya230 km · quickest by road, 3h 50m · ₺485–650
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Çankaya
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Çankaya. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe main services are from Kurtulan and Diyarbakir (Güney Kurtalan Ekspresi), from Kars and Erzurum (Doğu Ekspresi), and from Tatvan (Van Gölü Ekspresi), linked by dolmus or ferry to Van.
- Get aroundKızılay and Ulus are both hubs for privately operated minibuses and dolmuş, which usually display a list of destinations on a board behind the windscreen - if in doubt, ask the driver.
From Wikivoyage: Ankara, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
- 01510 km
- 02600 km
- 03699 km
- 04711 km
- 05719 km
If you know how people move in Çankaya – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Çankaya
Çankaya is 3 km from Ankara, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Altındağdistrict in Ankara Province, Turkey3.5 km
- Keçiören districtdistrict of Ankara, west-central Turkey6.1 km
- Mamak districtdistrict of Ankara, west-central Turkey1.5 km
- Yenimahalle districtdistrict of Ankara, west-central Turkey8 km
- Yenimahalledistrict and municipality in Ankara, Turkey8.2 km
- Uluscity quarter in Ankara, Turkey3.3 km