Yıldırım, Bursa Province, East Marmara Region, Türkiye
🇹🇷 Yıldırım is a metropolitan district in the centre of Bursa in Turkey. The district was named after Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I. It was founded in 1987 and it has a size of 399 km². The Sultan Bayezid I's nickname was Yıldırım, which means thunderbolt in Turkish.
Yıldırım, which is located at the foot of the Mt. Uludağ is 399 square km (km²) and 150–155 metres in elevation. Kestel and Gürsu are located west of Yıldırım, and Demirtaş, a subdistrict of Osmangazi, lies to the north. South of Yıldırım is Mt. Uludağ and to the north are relatively flat lands. The Bursa-Ankara highway passes through the Yıldırım district.
The Bursa Uludağ Aerial Lift, is an aerial lift line serving Mt. Uludağ. Built initially by the Swiss company Von Roll Holding and opened on 29 October 1963, the aerial tramway was replaced in 2013 by a modern and much bigger capacity gondola lift system of Leitner Group from Italy.
1Economy Yıldırım is one of the important textile production centres of Turkey.
1Historical places • Yeşil Mosque (Green Mosque) • Yeşil Türbe (Green Tomb) • Bayezid I Mosque and (külliye) complex (Yıldırım Camii ve külliyesi) • Emir Sultan Mosque • Cumalıkızık village.
1Composition There are 71 neighbourhoods in Yıldırım District: • 152 Evler • Akçağlayan • Anadolu • Arabayatağı • Bağlaraltı • Balaban • Baruthane • Beyazıt • Çelebi Mehmet • Çınarönü • Cumalıkızık • Davutdede • Davutkadı • Değirmenlikızık • Değirmenönü • Demetevler • Duaçınarı • Eğitim • Emirsultan • Erikli • Ertuğrulgazi • Esenevler • Fidyekızık • Güllük • Hacıseyfettin • Hacıvat • Hamamlıkızık • Hocataşkın • İsabey • Kaplıkaya • Karaağaç • Karamazak • Karapınar • Kazımkarabekir • Kurtoğlu • Maltepe • Mehmet Akif Ersoy • Mevlana • Meydancık • Millet • Mimarsinan • Mollaarap • Musababa • Namazgah • Ortabağlar • Piremir • Sakarya • Samanlı • Selçukbey • Selimzade • Sinandede • Sıracevizler • Şirinevler • Siteler • Şükraniye • Teferrüç • Ulus • Umurbey • Vakıf • Vatan • Yavuzselim • Yediselviler • Yenimahalle • Yeşil • Yeşilyayla • Yetmişbeşinciyıl • Yiğitler • Yıldırım • Yunusemre • Zeyniler • Zümrütevler.
1Europe/Istanbul/Bursa
Yıldırım has a population of over 629,961 people. Yıldırım also forms part of the wider Bursa Province which has a population of over 3,056,120 people. Yıldırım is situated 3 km east of the centre of Bursa.
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🇺🇸 Norristown 40.117
🇺🇸 Greenville 40.1
🇺🇸 King of Prussia 40.091
Locations Near: Yıldırım 29.0821,40.11
🇹🇷 Osmangazi 29.167,40.117 d: 7.2
🇹🇷 Nilüfer 28.95,40.283 d: 22.3
🇹🇷 Mudanya 28.924,40.354 d: 30.3
🇹🇷 Gemlik 29.15,40.417 d: 34.6
🇹🇷 Orhangazi 29.3,40.483 d: 45.4
🇹🇷 İnegöl 29.525,40.088 d: 37.8
🇹🇷 Mustafakemalpaşa 28.412,40.035 d: 57.6
Antipodal to: Yıldırım -150.918,-40.11
🇵🇫 Papeete -149.566,-17.537 d: 17501.8
🇹🇴 Nuku'alofa -175.216,-21.136 d: 16895.2
🇦🇸 Pago Pago -170.701,-14.279 d: 16557.8
🇼🇸 Apia -171.76,-13.833 d: 16457.1
🇺🇸 Hilo -155.089,19.725 d: 13347.7
🇺🇸 Maui -156.446,20.72 d: 13226.8
🇺🇸 Maui County -156.617,20.868 d: 13209
🇺🇸 Kahului -156.466,20.891 d: 13207.7