Afyonkarasihar, Afyon Province, Aegean Region, Türkiye
🇹🇷 Afyonkarahisar is a city in western Turkey, the capital of Afyon Province. Afyon is in the mountainous countryside inland from the Aegean coast, 250 km (155 mi) south-west of Ankara along the Akarçay River. In Turkey, Afyonkarahisar stands out as a capital city of hot springs and spas, an important junction of railway, highway and air traffic in West-Turkey, and the place where independence was won. In addition, Afyonkarahisar is one of the top leading provinces in agriculture, globally renowned for its marble and is the world's largest producer of pharmaceutical opium.
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Afyonkarasihar has a population of over 426,233 people. Afyonkarasihar also forms the centre of the wider Afyon Province which has a population of over 744,179 people.
To set up a UBI Lab for Afyonkarasihar see: https://www.ubilabnetwork.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/UBILabNetwork
Afyonkarasihar is a member of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network for Gastronomy see: https://en.unesco.org/creative-cities
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