page_title: Polatlı
section_title: Polatlı today
hierarchical_section_title: Polatlı / Polatlı today
caption_attribution_description: English: Park in front of the mosque at the Ankara cadesi at the main bus stop in Polatlı, Province of Ankara in Turkey Deutsch: Park vor der Moschee in der Ankara cadesi an der Bushaltestelle in Polatlı in der Provinz Ankara, Türkei
context_page_description: Polatlı is a city and a district in Ankara Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey, 80 km west of the Turkish capital Ankara, on the road to Eskişehir. According to 2019 census, population of the district is 125,075 of which 98,605 live in the city of Polatlı. The district covers an area of 3,789 km², and the average elevation is 850 m.
context_section_description: Today, Polatlı is an important district of Ankara on the main road which connects the capital to the west of Turkey. The city has a good range of restaurants, bars, schools and other important amenities but still a quiet rural feel to it, and little social life except cafes, patisseries and window shopping on a Sunday afternoon. There are car repair workshops but otherwise little industry. Polatlı is trying to become an independent province from Ankara and "we want to be a city" graffiti can be seen in the town.
  There is a military base here and the Turkish Army Artillery School was established in Polatlı in the early 1940s and is still an important institution in the town.
  Polatlıspor is a minor league football club that once climbed into the second league.
  There is a large statue of a kangaroo on the main road into city.
caption: City centre of Polatlı
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