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Bilkent

Bilkent is a district in Ankara, Turkey, with the postal code 06800 where Bilkent University is located.

Bilkent
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The place

Bilkent is a district in Ankara, Turkey, with the postal code 06800 where Bilkent University is located.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bilkent

3 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.

  1. 01
    Middle 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.

    3.9 km · state university in Ankara, Turkey · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Bilkent University

    Bilkent University is a private non-profit research university located in Ankara, Turkey. It was founded by İhsan Doğramacı, the first president of the Council of Higher Education and the head of the prominent Doğramacı family, with the aim of creating a center of excellence in higher education and research in 1984.

    400 m · private university in Ankara, Turkey · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Hacettepe University

    Hacettepe University is a public research university in Ankara, Turkey. It was established on 8 July 1967.

    1.3 km · state university 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.

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Getting to Bilkent

Airports
Esenboğa (ESB), 36 km · Hasan Polatkan (AOE), 190 km · Nevşehir Kapadokya (NAV), 196 km
  • Eskişehir → Bilkent
    192 km · quickest by road, 3h 26m · ₺405–540
  • Nevşehir → Bilkent
    0 km · quickest by road, 1 min · ₺0
  • Konya → Bilkent
    228 km · quickest by road, 3h 50m · ₺485–650
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bilkent

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 Bilkent. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    KastellorizoGR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    498 km
  2. 02
    GökçeadaTR

    11 ways of moving, 39 sources

    589 km
  3. 03
    ThasosGR

    10 ways of moving, 17 sources

    689 km
  4. 04
    MykonosGR

    12 ways of moving, 23 sources

    698 km
  5. 05
    NaxosGR

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    706 km

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Around it

Next door to Bilkent

Bilkent is 11 km from Ankara, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.