Yenimahalle is a municipality and

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of Ankara Province, Turkey. Its area is 219 km², and its population is 704,652 (2022). It is a fast-growing urban residential district of the city of Ankara, Turkey's capital. Its elevation is .

Yenimahalle today

The name ''Yenimahalle'' means ''the new quarter'' and in the late 1940s the area of open land to the west of the city was allocated for civil servants and workers housing. This grew with the construction of the E5 highway through the area and even more when the metro was built. Today the district mainly consists of large estates of apartment buildings and although the area is being filled up with concrete buildings there is still green space, tennis courts and other sports areas. There is some illegal building at the edge of the district but Yenimahalle is mainly planned development. This is the home for both of Ankara's teams: Gençlerbirliği and Ankaragücü, although their shared stadium is in

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. 82% of the working population are civil servants or workers in the city of Ankara. There is also a large retired community, and a small but growing number of traders and shopkeepers. Ankara's largest industrial area,

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, is on the edge of the district too. The rural areas are used mainly for growing grains and pulses. The headquarters of the national intelligence service ''

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'' is in Yenimahalle.

Demographics

Composition

There are 55

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in Yenimahalle District:Mahalle
Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 22 May 2023. * 25 Mart * Anadolu * Aşağı Yahyalar * Ata * Avcılar * Barış * Barıştepe * Batı Sitesi * Beştepe * Burç * Çamlıca * Çarşı * Çiğdemtepe * Demet * Demetgül * Demetlale * Emniyet * Ergazi * Ergenekon * Esentepe * Gayret * Gazi * Güventepe * Güzelyaka * İlkyerleşim * İnönü * Işınlar * İvedikköy * Kaletepe * Karacakaya * Kardelen * Karşıyaka * Kayalar * Kentkoop * Kuzey Yıldızı * Macun * Mehmet Akif Ersoy * Memlik * Ostim * Özevler * Pamuklar * Ragıp Tüzün * Serhat * Susuz * Tepealtı * Turgut Özal * Uğur Mumcu * Varlık * Yakacık * Yenibatı * Yeniçağ * Yeşilevler * Yukarı Yahyalar * Yunus Emre * Yuva

Places of interest

Akköprü Akköprü ( tr, ak köprü, "white bridge", ota, اق کوپری) is a historical bridge in Yenimahalle district of Ankara, Turkey, crosses the Ankara River in front of Varlık neighbourhood. It is the oldest bridge in Ankara and still in good ...

, a bridge over the Ankara River, built by the Seljuk Turks in 1222, on the old trade route to Baghdad. * Atatürk Forest Farm and Zoo, park and farm, financed by

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, or Mustafa Kemal Pasha until 1921, and Ghazi Mustafa Kemal from 1921 Surname Law (Turkey), until 1934 ( 1881 – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish Mareşal (Turkey), field marshal, Turkish National Movement, re ...

(1881-1938) personally to provide a place of recreation and agriculture in the city. It contains the ''Ankara Zoo'' and a full-size replica of the house in Salonica (today in Greece), where Atatürk was born. * Ankara 75th Anniversary Race Course, horse racetrack

References

External links

District governor's official website

District municipality's official website
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