City
Ankara
Capital of Turkey
What guided this image
- Landmarks
- Ankara Castle; The Museum of Anatolian Civilizations; Hacı Bayram Mosque and the adjacent Temple of Augustus; Surviving Ottoman houses near the citadel; Anıtkabir and Kocatepe Mosque
- Viewpoint
- Use a slightly elevated view from the southwest side of Ulus toward the castle, retaining the ordinary city around the familiar fortress silhouette rather than presenting Ankara as an entirely Ottoman museum town.
- Palette
- For this dry plateau city, explicitly shift the greens toward grey-green, olive, dusty sage and pale khaki; cool sand-beige terrain and slate-grey urban mass should carry more of the painting than vegetation, without adding warm orange.
- Guarded against
- Avoid making Ankara look like Istanbul with the Bosphorus and waterfront mosques, Antalya with a Mediterranean harbor, or Cappadocia with rock-cut towers.
Population3,517,182Wikidata: 5,270,575
Coordinates39.92°N, 32.85°E
Elevation938 m
Area25,632 km²
Time zoneEurope/IstanbulUTC+3
Solar noon12:49clock runs 0.8 h ahead of the sun
Through the Earth
Dig straight through the Earth from Ankara and you surface in open ocean, nearest to Mataura, French Polynesia — 1,856 km from the exact antipodal point.
Nearest cities in the atlas
| Konya | TR | 230 km |
| Kayseri | TR | 263 km |
| Bursa | TR | 324 km |
| Istanbul | TR | 351 km |
| Antalya | TR | 384 km |
| Adana | TR | 391 km |
| Gaziantep | TR | 506 km |
| İzmir | TR | 520 km |
Twinned cities
- Amman JO
- Ashgabat TM
- Astana KZ
- Bangkok TH
- Beijing CN
- Bishkek KG
- Bissau GW
- Bucharest RO
- Budapest HU
- Chisinau MD
- Damascus SY
- Dushanbe TJ
- Hanoi VN
- Islamabad PK
- Kharkiv UA
- Khartoum SD
- Kinshasa CD
- Kuala Lumpur MY
- Kuwait City KW
- Kyiv UA
- Manama BH
- Minsk BY
- Mogadishu SO
- Moscow RU
- Nicosia CY
- Pristina XK
- Sanaa YE
- Santiago CL
- Sarajevo BA
- Seoul KR
- Sofia BG
- Tbilisi GE
- Tirana AL
- Ufa RU
- Washington US
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