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Turkey’s National Aquarium, İstanbul Akvaryum 

Being one of the most important destinations of tourism in Turkey, İstanbul Akvaryum Complex is welcoming millions of domestic and foreign tourists each year with its 5-star Aqua Florya Shopping and Life Center, Crowne Plaza İstanbul Florya hotel offering luxurious accommodation options and İstanbul Akvaryum, the world's biggest theme aquarium.

Being the world's biggest theme aquarium with 17,000 sea creatures and 18 different theme areas, İstanbul Akvaryum is a place where fish species and land creatures living in the world's seas have been exhibited with state-of-the-art technology and themes since 2011. This makes it possible to raise awareness among both adults and children on marine life and the cleanliness of the seas.

Offering a visual feast with a total of 17 themes ranging from the Black Sea to the Pacific and 1 Amazon Rainforest, İstanbul Akvaryum also holds the title of the biggest theme aquarium in the world. Adults and children visiting İstanbul Akvaryum discover and get to know closely a lot of rare species in the world from poisonous stone fish to lemon sharks, from stingrays to the first and only gentoo penguins in Turkey?

Created themes and interactive content featured at İstanbul Akvaryum enable the young visitors to discover at an early age different species of creatures, raise their awareness of the "life centered environment".

İstanbul Akvaryum protects many endangered species such as sharks and gentoo penguins through the scientific studies it carries out and ensures the continuity of their existence. In this context, a great national success was achieved with the birth of a penguin in İstanbul Akvaryum for the first time in Turkey as a result of long term studies carried out by İstanbul Akvaryum 's aquarist staff of experts who are mostly aquaculture engineers.
 

İstanbul A Akvaryum Facts & Figures

  • The world's biggest theme aquarium
  • 1.5 million domestic and foreign visitors per year
  • 22 thousand square meters of building area
  • 7,000 square meters water capacity
  • 1.2 kilometer sightseeing path
  • A genuine 1,000 square meter "Amazon Rainforest"
  • 17 distinctive geographical themes from the Black Sea to the Pacific Ocean
  • Marine Life care, treatment and rehabilitation center

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