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Eğil (; ; ) is a municipality and district of Diyarbakır Province, Turkey. Its area is 449 km2, and its population is 21,434 (2022). It is populated by Kurds.

Key facts

Turkey place.type
metro district
Turkey place.name
Eğil
Turkey place.image_skyline
Gêl.jpg
Turkey place.image_map
Diyarbakır location Eğil.png
Turkey place.map_caption
Map showing Eğil District in Diyarbakır Province
Turkey place.province
Diyarbakır
Turkey place.area_total_km2
449
Turkey place.population_total
21434
Turkey place.population_as_of
2022
Turkey place.postal_code
21470
Turkey place.area_code
0412

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Wikidata facts

Country
Turkey
Continent
Asia
Official language
Turkish
Population
23369
Area
449
Elevation
851
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topic's main category
Category:Eğil
urban population
22165
rural population
17959
native label
اكیل
inception
1987-07-04
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Encyclopedic overview

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Eğil (; ; ) is a municipality and district of Diyarbakır Province, Turkey. Its area is 449 km2, and its population is 21,434 (2022). It is populated by Kurds.

The elected mayor Mustafa Akkul of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) was dismissed on the 23 March 2020 and replaced by a trustee. The current Kaymakam is Volkan Hür.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eğil district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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