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Karkamış district
Sign in to saveKarkamış, formerly Carablus, is a municipality and district of Gaziantep Province, Turkey. Its area is 298 km2, and its population is 9,379 (2022). It is next to the site of ancient Carchemish.
In the Vinony graph
Within Vinony's link graph, Karkamış district is referenced by 88 other articles, and connects out to Euphrates, T. E. Lawrence and Leonard Woolley.
The entry is geolocated on the map, across 2 mapped points.
Vinony files it under Districts of Gaziantep Province, Karkamış and Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey.
Its subject is documented across 24 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Turkey place.type
- metro district
- Turkey place.name
- Karkamış
- Turkey place.image_skyline
- File:Euphrates from The Mound of Carchemish. Accidents of an antiquary's life. 1910.jpg
- Turkey place.image_caption
- Euphrates River from Karkamış, 1910
- Turkey place.image_map
- Gaziantep location Karkamış.png
- Turkey place.map_caption
- Map showing Karkamış District in Gaziantep Province
- Turkey place.pushpin_relief
- 1
- Turkey place.province
- Gaziantep
- Turkey place.leader_party
- AK Party
- Turkey place.leader_name
- Mustafa Güzel
- Turkey place.area_total_km2
- 298
- Turkey place.population_total
- 9379
- Turkey place.population_as_of
- 2022
- Turkey place.postal_code
- 27880
- Turkey place.area_code
- 0342
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Turkey
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Gaziantep Province
- Continent
- Asia
- Official language
- Turkish
- Population
- 10436
- Area
- 298
- Elevation
- 358
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
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- urban population
- 9616
- rural population
- 7553
- Commons category
- Karkamış
- name in kana
- カルカミス
- inception
- 1990-05-20
Sources (7)
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- History
- Geography
- Composition
- Demographics
- Archeology
- Border Crossing
- References
Karkamış, formerly Carablus, is a municipality and district of Gaziantep Province, Turkey. Its area is 298 km2, and its population is 9,379 (2022). It is next to the site of ancient Carchemish.
It is a border checkpoint on the road to Jarabulus in Syria.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Karkamış district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations