{{for|the village|Kocasinan, Sındırgı}} {{Infobox Turkey place | type = metro district | name = Kocasinan | image_skyline = | image_caption = | image_logo = Kocasinan Belediyesi logo.svg | image_map = Kayseri location Kocasinan.svg | map_caption = Map showing Kocasinan District in Kayseri Province | coordinates = {{coord|38|44|N|35|29|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | province = Kayseri | leader_party = AKP | leader_name = Ahmet Çolakbayrakdar | leader_name1 = | area_total_km2 = 1471 | elevation_m = | population_footnotes = <ref name=tuik/> | population_total = 409005 | population_as_of = 2022 | postal_code = | area_code = 0352 | website = {{url|http://www.kocasinan.bel.tr/}} }} '''Kocasinan''' is a municipality and district of Kayseri Province, Turkey.<ref>[https://www.e-icisleri.gov.tr/Anasayfa/MulkiIdariBolumleri.aspx Büyükşehir İlçe Belediyesi] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230306001414/https://www.e-icisleri.gov.tr/Anasayfa/MulkiIdariBolumleri.aspx |date=2023-03-06 }}, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023.</ref> Its area is 1,471 km<sup>2</sup>,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.harita.gov.tr/uploads/files-folder/il_ilce_alanlari.xlsx|title=İl ve İlçe Yüz ölçümleri|publisher=General Directorate of Mapping|access-date=19 September 2023}}</ref> and its population is 409,005 (2022).<ref name=tuik>{{Cite web |title=Address-based population registration system (ADNKS) results dated 31 December 2022, Favorite Reports|url=https://biruni.tuik.gov.tr/medas/?kn=95&locale=en |access-date=19 September 2023|publisher=TÜİK|language=en|format=XLS}}</ref> It covers the northern part of the agglomeration of Kayseri and the adjacent countryside.
The name comes from Mimar Sinan, the Great, Ottoman architect. The mayor is Ahmet Çolakbayrakdar (AKP). The district Kocasinan was created in 1998 from part of the former central district of Kayseri, along with the district Melikgazi.<ref>[https://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/arsiv/20019.pdf Kanun No. 3508], Resmî Gazete, 14 December 1998.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=İl İdaresi ve Mülki Bölümler Şube Müdürlüğü İstatistikleri - İl ve İlçe Kuruluş Tarihleri |url=https://www.icisleri.gov.tr/kurumlar/icisleri.gov.tr/IcSite/illeridaresi/İstatistiki%20Bilgiler/İl%20İdaresi%20ve%20Mülki%20Bölümler/il%20ilce%20kurulus%20tarihleri_2019.pdf |access-date=21 September 2023|page=51 |language=tr}}</ref> At the 2013 Turkish local government reorganisation, the rural part of the district was integrated into the municipality, the villages becoming neighbourhoods.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Law No. 6360|url=https://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2012/12/20121206-1.htm |date=6 December 2012 |work=Official Gazette|language=tr}}</ref>
==Composition== There are 93 neighbourhoods in Kocasinan District:<ref>[https://www.e-icisleri.gov.tr/Anasayfa/MulkiIdariBolumleri.aspx Mahalle] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230306001414/https://www.e-icisleri.gov.tr/Anasayfa/MulkiIdariBolumleri.aspx |date=2023-03-06 }}, Turkey Civil Administration Departments Inventory. Retrieved 19 September 2023.</ref> {{div col|colwidth=12em}} * Ahievren * Akçatepe * Akin * Alsancak * Amarat * Argıncık * Barbaros * Barsama * Bayramhacı * Beyazşehir * Beydeğirmeni * Boğazköprü * Boyacı * Boztepe * Buğdaylı * Camiikebir * Çevril * Cırgalan * Dadağı * Doruklu * Düver * Ebiç * Elagöz * Elmalı * Emmiler * Erciyesevler * Erkilet * Ertuğrul Gazi * Eskiömerler * Eyim * Fevziçakmak * Fevzioğlu * Generalemir * Gevhernesibe * Gömeç * Güneşli * Hacısaki * Hasanarpa * Hasancı * Himmetdede * Hırka * Höbek * Hoca Ahmet Yesevi * Kalkancık * Karahüyük * Karakimse * Kaş * Kayabaşı * Kemer * Kızık * Kocasinan * Kuşcağız * Kuşcu * Mahzemin * Mevlana * Mimarsinan * Mithatpaşa * Mollahacı * Molu * Obruk * Oruçreis * Osmangazi * Oymaağaç * Sahabiye * Salur * Sanayi * Sancaktepe * Saraybosna * Saraycık * Şeker * Seyrani * Sümer * Talatpaşa * Taşhan * Turgutreis * Uğurevler * Vatan * Yakut * Yavuz * Yavuzselim * Yazır * Yemliha * Yenidoğan * Yenimahale * Yenişehir * Yeşil * Yıldızevler * Yukarıhasinli * Yunusemre * Yüreğil * Yuvalı * Ziyagökalp * Zümrüt {{div col end}}
==References== {{reflist}} {{commons category}}
{{Districts of Turkey|provname=Kayseri}}
Category:Populated places in Kayseri Province Category:Districts of Kayseri Province Category:Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey
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