Kırıkkale

Kırıkkale is a city in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey, about 80 kilometers east of Ankara, and is the seat of both Kırıkkale Province and Kırıkkale District. Its name means broken castle. Formerly a village, it grew rapidly after steel mills were established there in the 1950s, followed by chemical plants in the 1960s and an oil refinery in 1986, and it became a provincial administrative center in 1989. As of 2022 it had a population of about 186,960. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/