Yıldırım, Bursa

Yıldırım is a metropolitan district that covers 399 km² in the centre of Bursa in Turkey. Founded in 1987, it was named after Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I, whose nickname was Yıldırım ("thunderbolt" in Turkish).

The scenery of Bursa from Uludağ with the old aerial tramway

Yıldırım
Yıldırım
Coordinates: 40°06′36″N 29°04′56″E
Country	Turkey
Province	Bursa
Area [1]
• District	64.35 km2 (24.85 sq mi)
Population  (2012)[2]
• Urban	629,961
• District	631,482
• District density	9,800/km2 (25,000/sq mi)

Districts of Bursa City

Bursa Uludağ Gondola
km MASL in m 0.0 Teferrüç, Bursa 395 2.2 Kadıyayla, Uludağ 1,230 2.3 Sarıalan Yaylası, Uludağ 1,630 4.3 Oteller, Uludağ 1,870

It is at the foot of Mt. Uludağ, at 150–155 metres in elevation. Kestel and Gürsu are to its west, and the flat lands of Demirtaş, a subdistrict of Osmangazi, are to its north. The Bursa-Ankara highway passes through it.

The Bursa Uludağ Aerial Lift (Turkish: Teleferik, pictured to the right) is an aerial lift serving Mt. Uludağ. Built by the Swiss company Von Roll Holding and opened on 29 October 1963, the aerial tramway was replaced in 2013 by a modern and much bigger capacity gondola lift system by Leitner Group of Italy.[3]

With Osmangazi and Nilüfer, Yıldırım constitutes the Bursa metropolitan municipality.

Yıldırım has 66 quarters and a village called Cumalıkızık, whose well-preserved historical Ottoman architecture attracts many visitors.

Yıldırım is one of Turkey's important textile production centers.[4] With a population of 629,702 at the 2000 census, it is also one of Turkey's most populated areas; 30% of Bursa's population lives in the Yıldırım district.