Beykoz

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Beykoz

Total population

248,595

Coordinates41.13°, 29.09°

Demographic figures from TurkStat. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Beykoz is a municipality and district of Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 310 km2, and its population is 247,875 (2022). It lies at the northern end of the Bosphorus on the Anatolian side. The name is believed to be a combination of the words bey and kos, which means "village" in Farsi. Beykoz includes an area from the streams of Küçüksu and Göksu to the opening of the Bosphorus into the Black Sea, and the villages in the hinterland as far as the Riva creek. Before the Turkish alphabet reform of 1928, it was sometimes Latinized variously as Beicos or Beikos.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.