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Sincan, Ankara

Field	Value
type	metro district
name	Sincan
image_skyline	Harikalar Diyari Gulliver Lilliputians 06034 nevit.jpg
image_caption	Wonderland Ankara (Harikalar Diyarı), an amusement park in Sincan
image_map	Ankara location Sincan.svg
map_caption	Map showing Sincan District in Ankara Province
coordinates
province	Ankara
leader_party	AKP
leader_name	Murat Ercan
area_total_km2	880
elevation_m	789
population_footnotes
population_total	572609
population_as_of	2022
postal_code	06930
area_code	0312
website

Sincan is a municipality and metropolitan district of Ankara Province, Turkey. Its area is 880 km2, and its population is 572,609 (2022). Sincan has friendly relations with the municipality of Doboj Jug from Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Sincan District hosts ASO 1. Organize Sanayi Bölgesi, the biggest Organized Industrial Zone in Ankara, operated by Ankara Chamber of Industry.

Demographics

|2007|413030 |2012|479454 |2017|524222 |2022|572609

Geography

Sincan stands on a plain surrounded by hills and watered by the Ankara River, a tributary of the Sakarya River. There is some agriculture and light industry in Sincan, but the majority of people commute to Ankara by rail.

The symbol of the municipality is the tulip. The central square is called Lale Meydanı (Turkish for "tulip square"), and every year a tulip festival is held where plastic tulips are handed out in the streets.

Composition

There are 57 neighbourhoods in Sincan District:

29 Ekim
Adalet
Ahi Evran
Akçaören
Akşemsettin
Alagöz
Alcı
Anayurt
Andiçen
Atatürk
Bacı
Beyobası
Çiçektepe
Çoğlu
Çokören
Cumhuriyet
Erkeksu
Ertuğrulgazi
Esenler
Fatih
Fevzi Çakmak
Gazi
Gazi Osmanpaşa
Girmeç
Gökçek
Hisarlıkaya
Hürriyet
İlyakut
İncirlik
İstasyon
İstiklal
Kesiktaş
Malazgirt
Malıköy
Maraşal Çakmak
Menderes
Mevlana
Mülk
Mustafa Kemal
Osmaniye
Osmanlı
Pınarbaşı
Plevne
Polatlar
Saraycık
Selçuklu
Tandoğan
Tatlar
Törekent
Türkobası
Ücret
Ulubatlı Hasan
Yeniçimşit
Yenihisar
Yenikayı
Yenipeçenek
Yunus Emre

History

Even prior to the period of the Ottoman Empire, a village stood in this location, which subsequently grew to when Mustafa Kemal Atatürk commissioned a housing project here for Turkish refugees from Bulgaria. The battle saw fighting during the Battle of the Sakarya in the Turkish War of Independence. This was the furthest spot in Anatolia in which the Greek Army had advanced to.

Well-known residents

Şafak Sezer, actor and comedian
Sinan Şamil Sam, professional boxer
Oğuz Yılmaz, folk musician

References

[https://www.e-icisleri.gov.tr/Anasayfa/MulkiIdariBolumleri.aspx Büyükşehir İlçe Belediyesi], Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
"İl ve İlçe Yüz ölçümleri". General Directorate of Mapping.
Falling Rain Genomics, Inc. "Geographical information on Sincan, Turkey".
"AOSB Ankara Chamber of Industry 1.Organized Industrial Zone".
"Population Of SRE-1, SRE-2, Provinces and Districts". [[Turkish Statistical Institute.
[https://www.e-icisleri.gov.tr/Anasayfa/MulkiIdariBolumleri.aspx Mahalle], Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 22 May 2023.

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