Kınık
Kınık is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Kaş, Antalya Province, Turkey. Its population is 6,120. Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 189 residents
- Description: village in Antalya Province, Turkey
- Also known as: “Kinik”, “Kınık, Kaş”, “Kınıklı”, “Künük”, “Xanthos”, and “Xanthus”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kınık and Nereid Monument.
Kınık
Photo: Nikolas lloyd, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kınık is a town in Lycia, the Mediterranean region of Turkey. The reason to visit is the ancient Lycian sites of Xanthos and Letoon, both inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Kınık had a population of 6120 in 2022.
Nereid Monument
Monument
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Nereid Monument is a sculptured tomb from Xanthos in Lycia, close to present-day Fethiye in Mugla Province, Turkey. It took the form of a Greek temple on top of a base decorated with sculpted friezes, and is thought to have been built in the early fourth century BC as a tomb for Arbinas, the Xanthian dynast who ruled western Lycia under the Achaemenid Empire.
Harpy Tomb
Tomb
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Çavdır and Karadere.
Çavdır
Village
Çavdır is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Kaş, Antalya Province, Turkey. Its population is 3,830. Çavdır is situated 3½ km northeast of Kınık.
Karadere
Village
Karadere is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Seydikemer, Muğla Province, Turkey. Its population is 3,125. Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town. Karadere is situated 4½ km west of Kınık.
Ova
Village
Ova is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Kaş, Antalya Province, Turkey. Its population is 5,780. Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town. Ova is situated 5 km south of Kınık.
Kınık
- Categories: mahalle and locality
- Location: Kaş İlçesi, Antalya Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
36.35206° or 36° 21′ 7″ northLongitude
29.31902° or 29° 19′ 9″ eastPopulation
189Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)Open location code
8G8F9829+RJOpenStreetMap ID
node 258599145OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
307795Wikidata ID
Q4817107
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chechen to Vietnamese—“Kınık” goes by many names.
- Chechen: “Киник”
- Chinese: “Kınık”
- Dutch: “Kınık”
- German: “Kınık”
- Irish: “Kınık”
- Italian: “Kınık”
- Malay: “Kınık, Kaş”
- Malay: “Kınık”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kınık”
- Serbian: “Киник”
- Tatar: “Кынык”
- Turkish: “Kınık, Kaş”
- Turkish: “Kınık”
- Uzbek: “Kınık”
- Vietnamese: “Kınık, Kaş”
- Vietnamese: “Kınık”
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Notable Places Nearby
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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 “Kınık”. Photo: Moonik, CC BY-SA 3.0.