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Çankaya
District and municipality in Ankara, Turkey

Çankaya

Çankaya is a municipality and district of Ankara Province, Turkey.

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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.

How locals move

Getting around Çankaya the local way

  • 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. Last edited 2026-09.

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