T.C. Çanakkale Belediyesi

Geographical Location


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Çanakkale is the second city (like İstanbul) which has lands in both Asia and Europe on Gallipoli Peninsula on the northwest coast of Turkey and on Biga Gallipoli, the prologtion of Anatolia.

It has a 9.737 km2 area and it was located between 25˚-35˚ and 27˚-45˚ East longitutes and 39˚-30˚ and 40˚-42˚ North latitues. The city code is 17, the automatic phone code is 286 and the city zipcode is 17100. The altitude of the city is 2m from the sea level.

The distance of the Dardanelles is around 68 km that a naturel canal which is joining Aegean Sea and Marmara Sea. The most spare of the Dardanelles is around 1.250 m and the place is between Kilitbahir and Cimenlik Castle. Depth of this area is around 45-50m. There are two kind of water flow at the Dardanelles and one of this is from Marmara to Aegean Sea (upper) and the other one is from Aegean Sea to Marmara. The Dardanelles is an important canal again that differ the Asia and Europe. When you are going to use a public ferry from Canakkale to Eceabat that you are going to be in Europe now.