Turkey
Şanlıurfa Province
Viranşehir İlçesi

Viranşehir

Viranşehir is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 2,297 km2, and its population is 207,315. It is a market town serving a cotton-growing area, 93 km east of the city and 53 km north-west of at the Syrian border.
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  • Type: Town with 205,000 residents
  • Description: district and town in Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey
  • Also known as: “Antoninopolis”, “Veeranshahr”, and “Wiranschehir”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Burç and Oğlakçı.

Village
is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Viranşehir, , . Its population is 325. Its inhabitants are Yazidi. The village is located ca. 4 kilometres north of Viranşehir in southeastern Anatolia. is situated 4½ km north of Viranşehir.

Village
is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Viranşehir, , . Its population is 175. Its inhabitants are Yazidi. The village is located ca. 2.5 kilometres northeast of Viranşehir in southeastern Anatolia. is situated 5 km northeast of Viranşehir.

Viranşehir

Latitude
37.2329° or 37° 13′ 58″ north
Longitude
39.762° or 39° 45′ 43″ east
Population
205,000
Elevation
551 metres (1,808 feet)
Open location code
8G9X6QM6+5R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 130180711
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
298033
Wiki­data ID
Q497731
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Viranşehir” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ويران شهر”
  • Armenian: “Վերանշեհիր”
  • Asturian: “Viranşehir (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Viranşehir”
  • Azerbaijani: “Viranşehir”
  • Catalan: “Viranşehir”
  • Cebuano: “Viranşehir İlçesi”
  • Central Kurdish: “وێرانشار”
  • Chechen: “ВираншехӀир”
  • Chinese: “Viranşehir”
  • Chinese: “維蘭謝希爾”
  • Chinese: “维兰谢希尔”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Viranşehir”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Wêranşar”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Wêranşeher”
  • Dutch: “Viranşehir”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ويران شهر”
  • Esperanto: “Viranşehir”
  • French: “Viranşehir”
  • Gagauz: “Viranşehir”
  • German: “Viransehir”
  • German: “Viranşehir”
  • Gilaki: “ويران‌شهر (تۊرکيه)”
  • Gilaki: “ويران‌شهر”
  • Greek: “Βιρανσεχίρ”
  • Greek: “Βιράνσεχιρ”
  • Greek: “Κωνσταντία”
  • Greek: “Κωνσταντίνη”
  • Hungarian: “Viranşehir”
  • Indonesian: “Viranşehir”
  • Irish: “Viranşehir”
  • Italian: “Viranşehir”
  • Japanese: “ウィランシェヒル”
  • Japanese: “コンスタンティア”
  • Kurdish: “Wêranşar, Riha”
  • Kurdish: “Wêranşar”
  • Kurdish: “وێرانشار”
  • Lithuanian: “Viranšechyras”
  • Lithuanian: “Viranšehiras”
  • Malay: “Viranşehir”
  • Mazanderani: “ویران‌شهیر”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Viranşehir”
  • Minangkabau: “Viranşehir”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Viranşehir”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Viranşehir”
  • Norwegian: “Viranşehir”
  • Persian: “ویران شهر”
  • Persian: “ویرانشهر”
  • Persian: “ویران‌شهر”
  • Polish: “Viransehir”
  • Polish: “Viranşehir”
  • Portuguese: “Viranşehir”
  • Portuguese: “Viranxequir”
  • Romanian: “Viransehir”
  • Romanian: “Viranşehir”
  • Russian: “Вираншехир”
  • Russian: “Вираншехире”
  • Serbian: “Вираншехир”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ویرانشهر”
  • Spanish: “Viransehir”
  • Spanish: “Viranşehir”
  • Swahili: “Viranşehir”
  • Tatar: “Вираншеһир”
  • Turkish: “Viranşehir”
  • Urdu: “ویران شہر”
  • Venetian: “Viranşehir”
  • Vietnamese: “Viranşehir”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Viranşehir”
  • Western Mari: “Вираншехир”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع ویرانشہر”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Viranşehir”. Photo: Ismailulus, Public domain.