Küçükçekmece

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Küçükçekmece is the capital of the district of the Turkish province of İstanbul as well as a district on the European side of İstanbul. According to the last census Küçükçekmece had 669 081 inhabitants ( as of December 2008).

History

The settlement dates back to the Greek Rhegium (Greek Ῥήγιον ).

Geography

Küçükçekmece is a quite large and densely populated municipality in the western Istanbul and was named after the lake of the same name, adjacent. In 1987 a total of 27 district split ( including the two villages Kayabaşı and Şamlar ) from the circle Bakırkoy. The currently valid district border of Küçükçekmece were made after also Avcılar 1992, was made to the district.

Küçükçekmeces surface amounts to 118 km ² with a beach of 7 km in length. In the immediate neighborhood is İstanbul 's Atatürk Airport Havalimanı. The distance to the center of Istanbul is 23 km. Küçükçekmece bordered to the south by Bakırkoy, on the west by Avcılar, to the north and to the east by Başakşehir Bahçelievler and Bağcılar.

Küçükçekmece extends over a wide, flat area with only minor differences in height. From the shores of the sea and the lake to the local interior inside, the height steadily and reached the northern elevations 200 m. The valleys have quite striking and memorable form.

The Küçükçekmece Lake is according to its morphology is a genuine and typical lagoon lake. He is one of the world's rare lagoon lakes and therefore a natural wonder. The Küçükçekmecesee has an area of ​​16 km ² and is not particularly deep. He reached the South at 20 m its greatest depth.

The streams in this area are short, their gradients are unbegradigt and wild. Due to the rapid local growth and industrialization, a certain portion of these streams is now located in a residential and commercial areas, and which are thus more and more a vehicle for industrial and domestic sewage into the sea.

Population

In the census on 22 October 2000 showed a population of 589 139, of which 1,004 in the surrounding villages. The population growth is 0.66 %. The rate of read and write capable citizens is 80%.