Küçükçekmece (Turkish: [cyˈtʃyc.tʃec.me.dʒe]; meaning “small-drawer”, from much earlier Rhegion (Greek: Ρήγιον) and Küçükçökmece as “little breakdown" or “little depression”, in more ancient times just as Bathonea),[2] is a municipality and district of Istanbul Province, Turkey.

According to the Ottoman General Census of 1881/82-1893, the kaza of Küçükçökmece (also referred to as Rhagion by Ottomans back then) had a total population of 17,975, consisting of 10,945 Greeks, 5,340 Muslims, 1,396 Armenians, 61 Catholics, 31 Latins, 15 Bulgarians and 187 foreign citizens in the 1800s, and the population did not see a significant change until the early-mid 1900s.

The settlement was likely once only made up of the small village of Bathonea, to later turn into the town of Rhagion or also Küçükçökmece, and later as the Küçükçekmece we know today around the 30s.

The population of Küçükçekmece is growing, and new schools, supermarkets, parks, shopping centres, modern living spaces, cultural centers and other facilities are rapidly being built, and an ongoing metro-line construction[14] which will connect from Bağcılar, Kirazlı to a new Halkalı metro.

[15][16][17][18] Many residential areas in certain districts were gecekondu neighbourhoods, illegally built quasi-slums typical of old working-class Istanbul.

The remaining lot of these are being gradually replaced by large housing projects, or ”Kentleşme, Kentsel Dönüşüm projeleri” in Turkish.

The district is eight kilometers wide, reaching a small inlet west of Istanbul on the banks of Lake Küçükçekmece.

It is next to the Arena Park AVM, a large shopping center in the heart of the Halkalı district, (and near Atakent) which is also both a top attraction for outsiders and locals in Küçükçekmece.

The Yarımburgaz Caves, although not entirely inside the district, but on the north of Lake Küçükçekmece are pre-historic and ancient 400,000 year old cave settlements, once hosting inhabitants, (Homo erectus) who would later migrate to prehistoric Europe and begin the first footsteps of civilizations in Europe.

The Bathonea Ancient City is a currently active archeological and paleontology site, with ongoing scientific research.

plays in the Istanbul First Amateur League, there are many more clubs and teams in many different sports field based in and representing the Küçükçekmece region.

Matches are hosted across many available spaces such as in private or public, indoors or outdoors sports fields, centers, and schools.

Küçükçekmece has a cultural, economic and educational cooperation agreement with Józsefváros (Budapest District VIII), Hungary, which was signed in 2015.