CITIES

The urbanization in Turkey is well advanced, 74% of the total population live in a city. The south-east and north-east of the country are very sparsely populated, most of lives and works in the major urban centres on the West Coast and the region around the square Ankara, Sivas, Kayseri and Konya in central Turkey.

Capital and seat of government is located in Central Anatolia Ankara with a population of 4,466,756. There has also supported the Grand National Assembly office, the leadership and command of all forces. Ankara is one of the major industrial and service urban Turkey and university town, including sitting here by Mustafa Kemal founded in 1936 Ankara Üniversitesi, the oldest university Ankara.

Mega-metropolis, the largest city in the country and also the most important economic and cultural Ballungszentrum the country is located on the Bosporus Istanbul (formerly Constantinople), set by the strait dividing and thus on two continents over an area of about 1,269 sq. km. The actual city has 11,174,257 inhabitants in the entire metropolitan region, which focus entirely on the floor area of the province of Istanbul, is living in an area of approximately 5,220 square kilometres around 12,573,836 people. This is Istanbul one of the largest cities in the world.

Izmir with 3,739,353 inhabitants is the third largest Turkish city after Istanbul and has the second largest commercial port. Bursa (2,439,876 inhabitants), the former capital of the Ottoman Empire, is now a major business location for the automotive and textile industries. The main town in south-east Turkey, Diyarbakir. Diyarbakir (1,460,714 inhabitants) is second only to the Chinese Wall is the largest and best preserved fortification in the world. It consists mainly of basalt. The plant will be built in an inner and an outer section subdivided. Other major cities are Adana (2,006,650 inhabitants), Gaziantep (1,560,023 inhabitants), Konya and tourists stronghold Antalya (2007).