Buca district
Sign in to saveBuca (, ) is a municipality and district of İzmir Province, Turkey. Its area is 178 km2, and its population is 523,193 (2024). It is the biggest district of İzmir Province as terms of population. It covers the southeastern part of the agglomeration of İzmir and the adjacent countryside.
Key facts
- Turkey place.type
- metro district
- Turkey place.name
- Buca
- Turkey place.image_skyline
- Faik_Sarikaya_YEDIGOLLER_FOTO_20.jpg
- Turkey place.image_caption
- Yedi Göller (Seven Lakes) Park
- Turkey place.image_map
- İzmir location Buca.svg
- Turkey place.map_caption
- Map showing Buca District in İzmir Province
- Turkey place.province
- İzmir
- Turkey place.leader_party
- CHP
- Turkey place.leader_name
- Görkem DUMAN
- Turkey place.area_total_km2
- 178
- Turkey place.population_total
- 523193
- Turkey place.population_as_of
- 2024
- Turkey place.area_code
- 0232
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Turkey
- Official name
- Buca
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- İzmir Province
- Continent
- Asia
- Official language
- Turkish
- Population
- 523193
- Area
- 178
- Elevation
- 101
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Shares border with
- Torbalı district
- Official website
- www.buca.gov.tr
- Image
- İzmir Buca Mevlana heykeli ve mesire alanından Buca ilçesinin kuş bakışı görünümü 6.jpg
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- rural population
- 3400
- Commons category
- Buca
- topic's main category
- Category:Buca District
- urban population
- 443091
- P12749
- Egon Erwin Kisch
- name in kana
- ブカ
- inception
- 1987-07-04
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Composition
- Education
- Hippodrome
- Notable people
- See also
- Gallery
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- External links
Buca (, ) is a municipality and district of İzmir Province, Turkey. Its area is 178 km2, and its population is 523,193 (2024). It is the biggest district of İzmir Province as terms of population. It covers the southeastern part of the agglomeration of İzmir and the adjacent countryside.
==History== Buca was one of the preferred settlement areas of İzmir's community of Levantines. The great mansions they built in the 19th century stand to this day, most of them restored.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Buca district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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