Karakoçan
Karakoçan is a town of Elazığ Province in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. It is the seat of Karakoçan District. It is populated by Kurds and had a population of 14,811 in 2022.
Photo: Muhakara, Public domain.- Type: Town with 27,900 residents
- Description: district in Elazığ, Turkey
- Also known as: “Depı”, “Karakocan”, “Karakoçan (distritu)”, “Qaraqoçan”, “Qerekoçan”, “Tepe”, “Tepeköy”, “قراقوجان”, “قرقجان”, “قَرَقْجَانُ”, “قضاء قرقجان”, and “卡拉考昌縣”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Karapınar and Kalecik.
Kalecik
Village
Photo: Muhakara, Public domain.Tekardıç
Village
Tekardıç is a village in the Karakoçan District of Elazığ Province in Turkey. Tekardıç is situated 2½ km northwest of Karakoçan.
Karakoçan
- Category: locality
- Location: Karakoçan, Elazığ, Turkey, Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Europe
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Latitude
38.95645° or 38° 57′ 23″ north
Longitude
40.03803° or 40° 2′ 17″ east
Population
27,900
Elevation
1,087 metres (3,566 feet)
Open location code
8HC2X24Q+H6
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Karakoçan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قره قوجان”
- Armenian: “Օխու”
- Asturian: “Karakoçan”
- Cebuano: “Karakoçan İlçesi”
- Central Kurdish: “دەپ”
- Chechen: “Каракочан”
- Chinese: “卡拉考昌”
- Danish: “Karakoçan”
- Dimli (individual language): “Depe”
- Dimli (individual language): “Qeze”
- Dutch: “Karakoçan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كاراكوكان”
- French: “Karakoçan”
- Gagauz: “Karakoçan”
- German: “Karakoçan”
- Gilaki: “قراقؤچان”
- Hebrew: “קאראקוצ’אן”
- Irish: “Karakoçan”
- Italian: “Karakoçan”
- Kurdish: “Dep”
- Kurdish: “دەپ”
- Malay: “Karakoçan”
- Mazanderani: “قراقوچان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Karakoçan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karakoçan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karakoçan”
- Norwegian: “Karakoçan”
- Persian: “قراقوچان”
- Russian: “Каракоджана”
- Russian: “Каракочан”
- Serbian: “Каракочан”
- South Azerbaijani: “قاراقوچان”
- Swahili: “Karakoçan”
- Swedish: “Karakoçan”
- Tatar: “Каракочан”
- Turkish: “Karakoçan”
- Urdu: “قرہ کوچان”
- Vietnamese: “Karakoçan”
- Western Armenian: “Թափայ”
- Western Armenian: “Թէփէ”
- Western Mari: “Каракочан”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع کاراکوچان”
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