Kırıkkale Province is a province of Turkey

Turkey

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

Ankara

Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million....

 leading east to the Black Sea

Black Sea

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

Kirikkale

Kırıkkale is the capital of the Kırıkkale Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. It is located 80 km east of Ankara. According to the 2000 census, the population of the province is 280,834, of which 192,705 live in the city of Kırıkkale...

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

Kayseri

Kayseri is a large and industrialized city in Central Anatolia, Turkey. It is the seat of Kayseri Province. The city of Kayseri, as defined by the boundaries of Kayseri Metropolitan Municipality, is structurally composed of five metropolitan districts, the two core districts of Kocasinan and...

 railway near the Kızılırmak River. 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 districts

Districts of Turkey

The 81 provinces of Turkey are divided into 957 districts . In the early Turkish Republic and in the Ottoman Empire, the corresponding unit was the kaza....

 (capital district in bold):

• Bahşılı
  Bahsili
  Bahşılı is a town and district of Kırıkkale Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. According to 2000 census, population of the district is 8,525 of which 5,790 live in the town of Bahşılı.-External links:*...
  
  
• Balışeyh
  Baliseyh
  Balışeyh is a town and district of Kırıkkale Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. According to 2000 census, population of the district is 13,702 of which 3,344 live in the town of Balışeyh...
  
  
• Çelebi
  Çelebi
  Çelebi is a town and district of Kırıkkale Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. According to 2000 census, population of the district is 7,210 of which 3,333 live in the town of Çelebi.-External links:* *...
  
  
• Delice
  Delice
  Delice is a town and district of Kırıkkale Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. According to 2000 census, population of the district is 31,042 of which 10,512 live in the town of Delice.-External links:...
  
  
• Karakeçili
  Karakeçili
  Karakeçili is a town and district of Kırıkkale Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. According to 2000 census, population of the district is 8,296 of which 7,851 live in the town of Karakeçili.-External links:*...
  
  
• Keskin
  Keskin
  Keskin is a town and district of Kırıkkale Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. According to 2000 census, population of the district is 59,150 of which 34,827 live in the town of Keskin.-External links:*...
  
  
• Kırıkkale
  Kirikkale
  Kırıkkale is the capital of the Kırıkkale Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. It is located 80 km east of Ankara. According to the 2000 census, the population of the province is 280,834, of which 192,705 live in the city of Kırıkkale...
  
  
• Sulakyurt
  Sulakyurt
  Sulakyurt is a town and district of Kırıkkale Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. According to 2000 census, population of the district is 16,480 of which 6,344 live in the town of Sulakyurt.-External links:* *...
  
  
• Yahşihan
  Yahsihan
  Yahşihan is a town and district of Kırıkkale Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. According to 2000 census, population of the district is 14,098 of which 8,215 live in the town of Sulakyurt.-External links:* *...
  
  

External links

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