Küçükçekmece
Küçükçekmece, is a municipality and district of Istanbul Province, Turkey.
Küçükçekmece, is a municipality and district of Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 44 km2, and its population was 789,033 in 2024. It is 23 kilometers west of the city centre and lies next to Lake Küçükçekmece. Both the lake and land reside on the European shore of the Sea of Marmara. It is the second most populous district of Istanbul.
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Worth seeing in and around Küçükçekmece
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.
- 01Atatürk Olympic Stadium
The Atatürk Olympic Stadium is a stadium in Istanbul, Turkey. Located in the western district of Başakşehir, it is the largest-capacity stadium in the country, and largest permanent track and field stadium outside Africa and Asia by capacity.
8.8 km · football stadium in Istanbul, Turkey · Wikipedia - 02Istanbul Aquarium
Istanbul Aquarium is a public aquarium in Istanbul, Turkey. It opened its doors in April 2011 and is an official member of World Association of Zoos and Aquariums.
4 km · aquarium in Istanbul, Turkey · Wikipedia - 03Lake Küçükçekmece
Lake Küçükçekmece is a lagoon located between the Küçükçekmece, Esenyurt and Avcılar districts of the European portion of Istanbul Province, northwestern Turkey. The lake is neighbored in the south by state road D.100 and in the north by the O-3 motorway.
4.5 km · lake in Turkey · Wikipedia - 04Istanbul Aviation Museum
The Istanbul Aviation Museum, a.k.a. Turkish Air Force Museum, is a military-based museum for aviation, owned and operated by the Turkish Air Force.
4.6 km · museum in Istanbul, Turkey · Wikipedia - 05Ataköy Athletics Arena
Ataköy Athletics Arena is an indoor sporting arena for track and field athletics events located in Ataköy, Istanbul, Turkey.
4.9 km · indoor sporting arena in Ataköy, Istanbul, Turkey · Wikipedia - 06Cistern of the Hebdomon
The Cistern of the Hebdomon, known in Turkish as Fildamı Sarnıcı, is a Byzantine open sky water reservoir built in the quarter of the Hebdomon, an outskirt of Constantinople.
7.3 km · archeological site in Turkey · Wikipedia - 07Sea Life İstanbul
The TurkuaZoo also called Sealife is a public aquarium located in Bayrampaşa in Istanbul, Turkey. It was the first public aquarium in Turkey, and is one of the largest aquariums in Europe.
9.5 km · aquarium in Istanbul, Turkey · Wikipedia - 08Altınbaş University
Altınbaş University is a foundation university in Istanbul, Turkey. The university was established in 2008 as Istanbul Kemerburgaz University and changed to its current name in 2017.
6.6 km · private university in İstanbul, Turkey · Wikipedia - 09Florya Atatürk Marine Mansion
Florya Atatürk Marine Mansion is a historic presidential residence located offshore in the Sea of Marmara in the Florya neighborhood of the Bakırköy district in Istanbul, Turkey. It was built in 1935 by the municipality of Istanbul for Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's recreational use.
3.4 km · historic house museum in Istanbul, Turkey · Wikipedia - 10Yarımburgaz Cave
Yarimburgaz Cave is a cave of significant archaeological and paleontological importance, located in eastern Thrace and within Istanbul Province, Turkey.
9.7 km · cave in Turkey · Wikipedia
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Getting to Küçükçekmece
- Airports
- İstanbul (IST), 31 km · Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen (SAW), 44 km · Hasan Polatkan (AOE), 197 km
- Stations
- Atatürk Airport, 2.9 km · Halkalı railway station, 3.5 km · Davutpaşa—YTÜ, 8.7 km · Bakırköy railway station, 6.5 km · Atatürk Havalimanı, 2.9 km
- Pendik, Istanbul → Küçükçekmece41 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · ₺95–125
- Eskişehir → Küçükçekmece200 km · quickest by road, 4h 50m · ₺550–730
- Edremit → Küçükçekmece215 km · quickest by road, 4h 59m · ₺690–920
- 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 Küçükçekmece
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 Küçükçekmece. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe main dolmuş routes, which run virtually round the clock, are from Taksim to Bakırköy, Ataköy and Yeşilköy.
- Get inThere are several ferry routes connecting piers along the coast with central and eastern Istanbul.
From Wikivoyage: Istanbul/Western Suburbs, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Küçükçekmece
Küçükçekmece is 5 km from Bahçelievler, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Bayrampaşadistrict of İstanbul, northwestern Turkey10 km
- Esenlerdistrict of İstanbul, northwestern Turkey8.5 km
- Bakırköydistrict of İstanbul, northwestern Turkey4.9 km
- Avcılardistrict of İstanbul, northwestern Turkey7 km
- Zeytinburnudistrict of İstanbul, northwestern Turkey9.2 km
- Bahçelievlerdistrict of İstanbul, northwestern Turkey4.3 km