Konya is a major city in central Turkey and is the capital of Konya Province.
In 2021, the population of the Metropolitan Province was 2,277,017, making it the sixth most populous city in Turkey, and second most populous of the Central Anatolia Region, after Ankara. Of this, 1,390,051 lived in the three urban districts of Meram, Selçuklu and Karatay. Konya is served by TCDD high-speed train services from Istanbul and Ankara. Flights from Istanbul serve the local airport (Konya Havalimanı, KYA).
Geography
Konya sits in the center of the largest province, in the largest plain (Konya Plain), and is the seventh most heavily populated city in Turkey.
Lake Meke, a large crater lake in Konya Province
The city is in the southern part of the Central Anatolia Region with the southernmost side of the province hemmed in by the Taurus Mountains.
Climate
Konya has a cold semi-arid climate and a temperate continental climate.
Summer temperatures average 30 °C (86 °F), although summer nights are cool. The highest temperature recorded in Konya was 40.6 °C (105 °F) on 30 July 2000. Winters average −4.2 °C (24 °F), and the lowest temperature recorded was −26.5 °C (−16 °F) on 6 February 1972.
Selçuk University
Selçuk University is a state-owned higher educational institution which was founded in 1975 in Konya, Turkey. It is one of the largest universities in Turkey with a student body of 63,000 of which 2,200 are foreign students from 105 countries.
Selçuk University has been awarded the Institutional Accreditation Certificate by the Turkish Higher Education Quality Council (YOKAK)
