Kocasinan

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Kocasinan

Total population

391,661

Coordinates38.74°, 35.49°

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

Overview

Kocasinan is a municipality and district of Kayseri Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,471 km2, and its population is 409,005 (2022). It covers the northern part of the agglomeration of Kayseri and the adjacent countryside.

Geography

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

Notable people from here

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Erol Sabancı

Turkish banker (born 1938)

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Hacı Ömer Sabancı

Turkish businessperson (1906–1966)

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Hamdi Tevfik Altıok

Turkish association football player (born 1985)

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Coşkun Ertepınar

Turkish writer (1914–2005)

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Ali Dündar

Turkish writer (1924–2020)

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Osman Kavuncu

Turkish statesperson (1918–1966)

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Seyfi Teoman

Turkish film director and producer (1977–2012)

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Ergün Gündüz

Turkish artist (born 1960)

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Mehmet Özgüneş

Turkish statesperson (1921–1992)

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Şule Yüksel Şenler

Turkish writer (1938–2019)

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Ali Üçkulak

Turkish association football player (born 1986)

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Erdal Ceylanoğlu

Turkish general and statesperson (born 1945)

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Feyzi Feyzioğlu

Turkish attorney (1922–1983)

Hasan Kaçan

Turkish actor (born 1957)

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Mehmet Âlim Çınar

Turkish statesperson (1861–1923)

İhsan Eliaçık

Turkish writer (born 1961)

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

Nearby places in Kayseri

• Kayseri
  1.1 mi away · pop. 1,389,680
• Melikgazi
  1.3 mi away · pop. 555,671
• Talas
  4.2 mi away · pop. 157,695
• Hacılar
  6.8 mi away · pop. 12,482
• Incesu
  18.5 mi away · pop. 25,614
• Bünyan
  21 mi away · pop. 25,950
• Develi
  24.1 mi away · pop. 65,322
• Felahiye
  24.8 mi away · pop. 5,769
• Tomarza
  25.9 mi away · pop. 22,818
• Özvatan
  27.8 mi away · pop. 3,865
• Yeşilhisar
  34.4 mi away · pop. 15,854
• Sarıoğlan
  34.6 mi away · pop. 13,936

Browse all places in Kayseri →

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 Kocasinan

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

Flashlight Shield Lady Beetle

Parexochomus nigromaculatus

Seen 2026-09-22

Cotton Bollworm Moth

Helicoverpa armigera

Seen 2026-09-20

puncture vine

Tribulus terrestris

Seen 2026-09-18

Common Redstart

Phoenicurus phoenicurus

Seen 2026-09-02

Steatoda castanea

Steatoda castanea

Seen 2026-08-31

Caucasian Squirrel

Sciurus anomalus

Seen 2026-08-29

chicory

Cichorium intybus

Seen 2026-08-26

Reduvius pallipes

Reduvius pallipes

Seen 2026-08-23

Common Purslane

Portulaca oleracea

Seen 2026-08-21

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).