Güngören
Güngören is a municipality and district of Istanbul Province, Turkey.
Güngören is a municipality and district of Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 7 km2, making it the smallest district of Turkey in terms of land area. Its population is 282,692 (2022), down from a peak of 318,545 in 2007. It is an industrial and working class area. It is located near the district of Bakırköy on the Çatalca Peninsula in the western half of Istanbul Province. Güngören, which became a district on June 3, 1992, is adjacent to Zeytinburnu to the east, Esenler, Bakırköy in the south, and Bahçelievler to the west. The district is now fully urbanized and consists of 11 neighborhoods. The mayor is Bünyamin Demir (AKP).
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Worth seeing in and around Güngören
8 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.
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- 06Güngören M.Yahya Baş Stadium
Multi-purpose stadium in Güngören district of Istanbul, Turkey
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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 Güngören
- Airports
- İstanbul (IST), 30 km · Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen (SAW), 39 km · Hasan Polatkan (AOE), 194 km
- Stations
- Davutpaşa—YTÜ, 2.4 km · Kirazlı (M1), 2.7 km · Merter, 2.7 km · Kocatepe, 3.5 km · Terazidere, 2.4 km
- Eskişehir → Güngören197 km · quickest by road, 4h 41m · ₺530–700
- Edremit → Güngören224 km · quickest by road, 4h 50m · ₺670–900
- Gaziemir → Güngören335 km · quickest by air, 4h 52m · ₺2,570–3,980
- 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 Güngören
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 Güngören. 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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If you know how people move in Güngören – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Güngören
Güngören is 2 km from Bağcılar, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Bayrampaşadistrict of İstanbul, northwestern Turkey3.7 km
- Esenlerdistrict of İstanbul, northwestern Turkey3.5 km
- Zeytinburnudistrict of İstanbul, northwestern Turkey3.7 km
- Bahçelievlerdistrict of İstanbul, northwestern Turkey3.3 km
- Bağcılardistrict of Istanbul1.8 km