Foça district
Sign in to saveFoça is a municipality and district of İzmir Province, Turkey. Its area is 251 km2, and its population is 34,946 (2022). The town of Foça is situated at about northwest of İzmir's city center on the Aegean coast. The district has a settlement and former municipality named Yenifoça (literally "New Foça"), also along the Aegean Sea shore and at a distance of from Foça proper. For this reason, Foça itself is locally often called as Eskifoça ("Old Foça") in daily parlance.
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Foça is a district and town located in İzmir Province, Turkey. It is situated in the Aegean Region, bordering the Gulf of İzmir and the Aegean Sea. The district shares borders with Aliağa and Menemen. Its official name is Foça, and it is named after Phocaea. The area has an elevation of 8 meters above sea level and is designated as an Important Bird Area.
The district covers an area of 251 square kilometers. According to available data, the population is 33,131, with an urban population of 40,592 and a rural population of 21,503. The official language is Turkish, and the local postal code is 35680. The time zone is UTC+03:00.
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Place details
- Locality
- Foça
- Region
- İzmir Province
- Country
- Türkiye
- Population
- 15,189
- Timezone
- Europe/Istanbul
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Turkey place.type
- metro district
- Turkey place.name
- Foça
- Turkey place.image_skyline
- Foça pictures 12.jpg
- Turkey place.image_caption
- Marina of Foça
- Turkey place.image_map
- İzmir location Foça.svg
- Turkey place.map_caption
- Map showing Foça District in İzmir Province
- Turkey place.province
- İzmir
- Turkey place.leader_party
- CHP
- Turkey place.leader_name
- Fatih Gürbüz
- Turkey place.area_total_km2
- 251
- Turkey place.population_total
- 34946
- Turkey place.population_as_of
- 2022
- Turkey place.postal_code
- 35410
- Turkey place.area_code
- 0232
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Turkey
- Named after
- Phocaea
- Official name
- Foça
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- İzmir Province
- Continent
- Asia
- Official language
- Turkish
- Population
- 32264
- Area
- 251
- Elevation
- 8
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Body of water
- Aegean Sea
- Shares border with
- Menemen
- Official website
- www.foca.gov.tr
- Image
- Foça square.jpg
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- Commons category
- Foça
- postal code
- 35680
- heritage designation
- Important Bird Area
- urban population
- 33611
- rural population
- 10162
- located in/on physical feature
- Aegean Region
- name in kana
- フォチャ
- described by source
- Oxford Classical Dictionary
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- History
- Composition
- See also
- References
- External links
Foça is a municipality and district of İzmir Province, Turkey. Its area is 251 km2, and its population is 34,946 (2022). The town of Foça is situated at about northwest of İzmir's city center on the Aegean coast. The district has a settlement and former municipality named Yenifoça (literally "New Foça"), also along the Aegean Sea shore and at a distance of from Foça proper. For this reason, Foça itself is locally often called as Eskifoça ("Old Foça") in daily parlance.
==History== thumb|left|Coastline near Foça
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Foça district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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