Çatak district
Sign in to saveAlso known as Catak, Catak (District), Van, Shadakh
Çatak (; ) is a municipality and district of Van Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,952 km2, and its population is 18,462 (2022). Its inhabitants are Kurds. As mayor Abdürrahman Şeylan from the Justice and Development Party (AKP) was elected in the local elections in March 2019, Sercan Sakarya is the current Kaymakam, installed in August 2022.
Key facts
- Turkey place.type
- metro district
- Turkey place.name
- Çatak
- Turkey place.image_map
- Van location Çatak.PNG
- Turkey place.map_caption
- Map showing Çatak District in Van Province
- Turkey place.province
- Van
- Turkey place.leader_party
- AKP
- Turkey place.leader_name
- Abdürrahman Şeylan
- Turkey place.area_total_km2
- 1952
- Turkey place.population_total
- 18462
- Turkey place.population_as_of
- 2022
- Turkey place.postal_code
- 65870
- Turkey place.area_code
- 0432
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Turkey
- Official name
- Çatak
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Van Province
- Continent
- Asia
- Official language
- Turkish
- Population
- 20937
- Area
- 1952
- Elevation
- 1497
- Time zone
- time in Turkey
- Official website
- catak.bel.tr
- Licence plate code
- 65
Show 7 more facts
- urban population
- 19376
- Commons category
- Çatak
- topic's main category
- Category:Çatak
- rural population
- 21938
- name in kana
- シャタク
- native label
- Çatak
- postal code
- 65870–65879
Sources (7)
via Wikidata · CC0
~2 min read
Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- 2006 bomb attack
- Demographics
- Composition
- References
Çatak (; ) is a municipality and district of Van Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,952 km2, and its population is 18,462 (2022). Its inhabitants are Kurds. As mayor Abdürrahman Şeylan from the Justice and Development Party (AKP) was elected in the local elections in March 2019, Sercan Sakarya is the current Kaymakam, installed in August 2022.
==2006 bomb attack== Two people were killed in a bomb explosion at an outdoor cafe in south-east Turkey, police stated on September 4, 2006. It followed a series of bombings in the last week of August 2006, at Turkish resorts and in Istanbul, that killed at least three people.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Çatak district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations