Çanakkale

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Çanakkale

Total population

143,675

Coordinates40.15°, 26.40°

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

Overview

Çanakkale, formerly known in English as Dardanelles, is a city and seaport in Turkey on the southern shore of the Dardanelles at their narrowest point. It is the seat of Çanakkale Province and Çanakkale District. Its population is 143,622 (2021).

Geography

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

Notable people from here

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Anaximenes of Lampsacus

4th-century BC Greek rhetorician and historian

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Güney Dal

Turkish-German writer (born 1944)

Fevzi Elmas

Turkish association football player (born 1983)

Şahika Ercümen

Turkish free diver (born 1985)

Muhtar Mollaoğlu

Turkish diplomat and statesperson (1870–1934)

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Ali Bayramoğlu

Turkish writer (born 1956)

Tahir Musa Ceylan

Turkish philosopher and writer (born 1956)

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Aslıhan Gürbüz

Turkish actor (born 1983)

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Metin Erksan

Turkish film director (1929–2012)

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Palaephatus of Abydus

ancient Greek historical writer

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Kemal Bilbaşar

Turkish writer (1910–1983)

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Mehmet Ünal

Turkish-German journalist and writer (born 1951)

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Nurettin Ersin

Turkish general and statesperson (1918–2005)

Recep Aydın

Turkish association football player (born 1990)

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Rober Hatemo

Turkish singer (born 1974)

Tevfik Rüştü Aras

Turkish statesperson (1883–1972)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Çanakkale

• Manastirtsi
  221.8 mi away
• Chudomir
  222.1 mi away
• Loznitsa
  223 mi away
• Trapishte
  223.3 mi away
• Trabach
  223.4 mi away
• Kroiach
  224.3 mi away
• Lovsko
  224.6 mi away
• Seidol
  225 mi away
• Sinia Voda
  225.4 mi away
• Manastirsko
  226.5 mi away
• Studenets
  227 mi away
• Beli Lom
  227.4 mi away

Browse all places in Çanakkale →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Çanakkale

Canakkale Canakkale

Oguzhan Cengiz · 2010

Çanakkale

Uluslararası Çanakkale Kongresi (2006 Istanbul and Çanakkale, Turkey) · 2006

Çanakkale destani

Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca · 1965

Çanakkale Savaşları tarihi

Mustafa Demir · 2008

Çanakkale, 1915

İhsan Ilgar · 1969

Çanakkale mahşeri

Mehmed Niyazi · 1998

--Ve Çanakkale

Mustafa Necati Sepetçioğlu · 1989

Çanakkale raporu

Halis · 1975

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