🇹🇷 Sancaktepe is a municipality and district of Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its area is 63 km². In 2008 the district Sancaktepe was created from parts of the districts Kartal and Ümraniye. The urban part of the new district was established as a municipality. At the 2013 Turkish local government reorganisation, the rural part of the district was integrated into the municipality, the villages becoming neighbourhoods.
1Composition There are 19 neighbourhoods in Sancaktepe District: • Abdurrahmangazi • Akpınar • Atatürk • Emek • Eyüp Sultan • Fatih • Hilal • İnönü • Kemal Türkler • Meclis • Merve • Mevlana • Osmangazi • Paşaköy • Safa • Sarıgazi • Veysel Karani • Yenidoğan • Yunus Emre.
1History Sancaktepe's oldest historic structure is Damatris Summer Palace that was built by I. Tiberius Konstantinos (578–582) and Maurice (582–602) in Byzantine Age. The Ottoman Empire conquered this area completely in 1328.
1Notable buildings • Istanbul Samandıra Army Air Base • Sancaktepe Prof. Dr. Feriha Öz Emergency Hospital • Sancaktepe Stadium.
1Sancaktepe has a population of over 489,848 people. Sancaktepe also forms one of the centres of the Greater Istanbul metropolitan area which has a population of over 15,519,267 people.
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Twin Towns - Sister Cities Sancaktepe has links with:
🇧🇦 Gornji Vakuf-Uskoplje, Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇲🇦 Kenitra, Morocco🇹🇷 Zeytinburnu 40.967
🇲🇩 Anenii Noi 29.217
Locations Near: Sancaktepe 29.2,40.9833
🇹🇷 Çekmeköy 29.167,41.033 d: 6.2
🇹🇷 Ataşehir 29.117,40.983 d: 7
🇹🇷 Kartal 29.184,40.887 d: 10.8
🇹🇷 Ümraniye 29.1,41.017 d: 9.2
🇹🇷 Maltepe 29.117,40.917 d: 10.2
🇹🇷 Pendik 29.233,40.867 d: 13.3
🇹🇷 Üsküdar 29.033,41.017 d: 14.5
🇹🇷 Beykoz 29.097,41.126 d: 18.1
Antipodal to: Sancaktepe -150.8,-40.983
🇵🇫 Papeete -149.566,-17.537 d: 17405.3
🇹🇴 Nuku'alofa -175.216,-21.136 d: 16830.2
🇦🇸 Pago Pago -170.701,-14.279 d: 16476.2
🇼🇸 Apia -171.76,-13.833 d: 16376.6
🇺🇸 Hilo -155.089,19.725 d: 13250.1
🇺🇸 Maui -156.446,20.72 d: 13129.2
🇺🇸 Maui County -156.617,20.868 d: 13111.4
🇺🇸 Kahului -156.466,20.891 d: 13110.1