Göksun
Göksun is a municipality and district of Kahramanmaraş Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,942 km2, and its population is 50,676. It is near one of the sources of the Ceyhan River, in the ancient region of Cataonia.Photo: KadimBilgi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Christian1311, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 51,300 residents
- Description: district of Kahramanmaraş, southern Turkey
- Also known as: “Cocussus”, “Goeksun”, “Göksun district”, “Kokson”, “Köksün”, and “Kokusus”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kireçköy and Karaahmet.
Kireçköy
Village
Kireçköy is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Göksun, Kahramanmaraş Province, Turkey. Its population is 96. It is located south of Göksun, and is surrounded by mountains. Kireçköy is situated 5 km south of Göksun.
Karaahmet
Village
Photo: KadimBilgi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Karaahmet is a village, which is situated 7 km east of Göksun.
Göksun
- Categories: municipality, district of Turkey, and locality
- Location: Göksun İlçesi, Kahramanmaraş Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.02131° or 38° 1′ 17″ northLongitude
36.49456° or 36° 29′ 40″ eastPopulation
51,300Elevation
1,344 metres (4,409 feet)Open location code
8GCR2FCV+GROpenStreetMap ID
node 259835597OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
314188Wikidata ID
Q939677
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Göksun” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جوكسون”
- Arabic: “ككسون”
- Arabic: “كُكْسُونُ”
- Armenian: “Կէօքսուն”
- Asturian: “Göksun (distritu)”
- Asturian: “Göksun”
- Azerbaijani: “Göksun”
- Belarusian: “Гёксун”
- Belarusian: “Гэксун”
- Catalan: “Cocusus”
- Catalan: “Gogison”
- Catalan: “Göksun”
- Catalan: “Göksün”
- Catalan: “Kokussos”
- Cebuano: “Göksun İlçesi”
- Chechen: “Гоьксун”
- Chinese: “Göksun”
- Chinese: “格克孙”
- Chinese: “格克孫”
- Chinese: “科库索斯”
- Danish: “Goksan”
- Dutch: “Goksun”
- Dutch: “Göksun”
- French: “Göksun”
- Gagauz: “Göksun”
- German: “Göksun”
- German: “Kukusos”
- Gilaki: “گؤکسۊن”
- Greek: “Κουκουσός”
- Irish: “Göksun”
- Italian: “Cucusus”
- Italian: “Distretto di Göksun”
- Italian: “Göksun”
- Japanese: “ギョクスン”
- Japanese: “ギョクスン郡”
- Kurdish: “Goksun”
- Kurdish: “Koksen”
- Kurdish: “کۆکسەن”
- Lithuanian: “Gioksunas”
- Malay: “Göksun”
- Mazanderani: “گوکسون”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Göksun”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Göksun”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Göksun”
- Persian: “گکسون”
- Persian: “گوکسون”
- Polish: “Goksun”
- Polish: “Göksun”
- Portuguese: “Coxon”
- Portuguese: “Cucusus”
- Portuguese: “Göksun”
- Romanian: “Goksun”
- Romanian: “Göksun”
- Russian: “Гёксун”
- Serbian: “Гоксун”
- Serbian: “Кукуз”
- Slovenian: “Göksun”
- South Azerbaijani: “گوکسون”
- Swahili: “Göksun”
- Tatar: “Гөксун”
- Turkish: “Göksun”
- Ukrainian: “Ґьоксун”
- Urdu: “گوکسن”
- Vietnamese: “Göksun”
- Western Mari: “Гӧксун”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع گوکسن”
- “Göksun ilçesi”
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