Burç
Burç is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Viranşehir, Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. Its population is 325. Its inhabitants are Yazidi. The village is located ca. 4 kilometres north of Viranşehir in southeastern Anatolia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 361 residents
- Description: mahalle (administrative quarter) in Viranşehir, Şanlıurfa, southeastern Turkey
- Also known as: “Burc” and “Gori”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oğlakçı and Viranşehir.
Oğlakçı
Village
Oğlakçı is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Viranşehir, Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. Its population is 175. Its inhabitants are Yazidi. The village is located ca. 2.5 kilometres northeast of Viranşehir in southeastern Anatolia. Oğlakçı is situated 3 km southeast of Burç.
Viranşehir
Town
Photo: Ismailulus, Public domain.
Viranşehir is a municipality and district of Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. 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 Şanlıurfa and 53 km north-west of Ceylanpınar at the Syrian border. Viranşehir is situated 4½ km south of Burç.
Burç
- Categories: mahalle and locality
- Location: Viranşehir İlçesi, Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
37.27233° or 37° 16′ 20″ northLongitude
39.7719° or 39° 46′ 19″ eastPopulation
361Elevation
623 metres (2,044 feet)Open location code
8G9X7QCC+WQOpenStreetMap ID
node 1382716073OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
313933Wikidata ID
Q11839532
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In Other Languages
From Chechen to Vietnamese—“Burç” goes by many names.
- Chechen: “Бурч”
- German: “Burç”
- Irish: “Burç”
- Kurdish: “Birc, Wêranşar”
- Kurdish: “Birc”
- Kurdish: “Burç (gund)”
- Tatar: “Бурч”
- Turkish: “Burç, Viranşehir”
- Turkish: “Burç”
- Uzbek: “Burç”
- Vietnamese: “Burç, Viranşehir”
- Vietnamese: “Burç”
- “Burç”
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