Kırıkkale Province ( tr, ) is a province of

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. It is located on the crossroads of major highways east of

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leading east to the

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region. With its rapid population growth it has become an industrial center. The provincial capital is

Kırıkkale Kırıkkale is the capital of the Kırıkkale Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. It is located 80 km east of Ankara which is the capital city of Turkey. According to the 2000 census, the population of the province is 280,83 ...

. Kırıkkale is a rapidly growing town in central Turkey, on the Ankara-

Kayseri Kayseri (; el, Καισάρεια) is a large industrialised city in Central Anatolia, Turkey, and the capital of Kayseri province. The Kayseri Metropolitan Municipality area is composed of five districts: the two central districts of Kocasina ...

railway near the

Kızılırmak River The Kızılırmak (, Turkish for "Red River"), once known as the Halys River ( grc, Ἅλυς) and Alis River ( hy, Ալիս), is the longest river flowing entirely within Turkey. It is a source of hydroelectric power and is not used for navig ...

. Formerly a village, it owes its rapid rise in population mainly to the establishment of steel mills in the 1950s. These works, among the largest in the country, specialize in high-quality alloy steel and machinery. In the 1960s chemical plants were added.

Districts

Kırıkkale province is divided into 9

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(capital district in bold): * Bahşılı * Balışeyh * Çelebi *

Delice Delice is a town and district of Kırıkkale Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located ma ...

Karakeçili Karakeçili is a town and district of Kırıkkale Province in the Central Anatolia The Central Anatolia Region ( tr, İç Anadolu Bölgesi) is a geographical region of Turkey. The largest city in the region is Ankara. Other big cities are K ...

Keskin Keskin is a town and district of Kırıkkale Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. At the 2000 Turkish census, the population of the district was 59,150, of whom 34,827 lived in the town of Keskin. See also *Once Upon a Time in An ...

* Sulakyurt * Yahşihan

Gallery

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References

External links

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Kırıkkale governor's official website
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Kırıkkale municipality's official website
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Kırıkkale weather forecast information
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