title: Sincan, Ankara
text: Sincan is a municipality and metropolitan district of Ankara Province, Turkey. Its area is 880 km2, and its population is 572,609 (2022). It is a large town 27 km from the city of Ankara. Its elevation is .
  Sincan has friendly relations with the municipality of Doboj Jug from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
  
  Sincan District hosts ASO 1. Organize Sanayi Bölgesi, the biggest Organized Industrial Zone in Ankara, operated by Ankara Chamber of Industry.
  
  Demographics
  
  Geography
  Sincan stands on a plain surrounded by hills and watered by the Ankara River, a tributary of the Sakarya River. There is some agriculture and light industry in Sincan, but the majority of people commute to Ankara by rail.
  
  The symbol of the municipality is the tulip. The central square is called Lale Meydanı (Turkish for "tulip square"), and every year a tulip festival is held where plastic tulips are handed out in the streets.
  
  Composition
  There are 57 neighbourhoods in Sincan District:
  
   29 Ekim
   Adalet
   Ahi Evran
   Akçaören
   Akşemsettin
   Alagöz
   Alcı
   Anayurt
   Andiçen
   Atatürk
   Bacı 
   Beyobası
   Çiçektepe
   Çoğlu
   Çokören
   Cumhuriyet
   Erkeksu
   Ertuğrulgazi
   Esenler
   Fatih
   Fevzi Çakmak
   Gazi
   Gazi Osmanpaşa
   Girmeç
   Gökçek
   Hisarlıkaya
   Hürriyet
   İlyakut
   İncirlik
   İstasyon
   İstiklal
   Kesiktaş
   Malazgirt
   Malıköy
   Maraşal Çakmak
   Menderes
   Mevlana
   Mülk
   Mustafa Kemal
   Osmaniye
   Osmanlı
   Pınarbaşı
   Plevne
   Polatlar
   Saraycık
   Selçuklu
   Tandoğan
   Tatlar
   Törekent
   Türkobası
   Ücret
   Ulubatlı Hasan
   Yeniçimşit
   Yenihisar
   Yenikayı
   Yenipeçenek
   Yunus Emre
  
  History
  Even prior to the period of the Ottoman Empire, a village stood in this location, which subsequently grew to when Mustafa Kemal Atatürk commissioned a housing project here for Turkish refugees from Bulgaria. The battle saw fighting during the Battle of the Sakarya in the Turkish War of Independence. This was the furthest spot in Anatolia in which the Greek Army had advanced to.
  
  Well-known residents
   Şafak Sezer, actor and comedian
   Sinan Şamil Sam, professional boxer
   Oğuz Yılmaz, folk musician
  
  References
  
  External links
  
   District governor's official website 
   District municipality's official website 
   
   Local news website 
  
   
  Populated places in Ankara Province
  Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey
  Districts of Ankara Province