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.
- Town with about 56,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 1,350 metres (4,430 feet)
- Description: district of Kahramanmaraş, southern Turkey
- Also known as“Goeksun”“Göksun district”
- Historically known as“Cocussus”“Kokson”“Köksün”“Kokussos”“Kokusus”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kireçköy and Karaahmet.
Karaahmet
Village
Karaahmet is a village, which is situated 7 km east of Göksun.
Göksun
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Latitude
38.02131° or 38° 1′ 17″ north
Longitude
36.49456° or 36° 29′ 40″ east
Open location code
8GCR2FCV+GR
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Göksun” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جوكسون”
- Arabic: “كُكْسُونُ”
- Armenian: “Կէօքսուն”
- Asturian: “Göksun (distritu)”
- Asturian: “Göksun”
- Azerbaijani: “Göksun”
- Belarusian: “Гёксун”
- Belarusian: “Гэксун”
- Catalan: “Cocusus”
- Catalan: “Gogison”
- Catalan: “Göksün”
- Catalan: “Kokussos”
- Cebuano: “Göksun İlçesi”
- Chechen: “Гоьксун”
- Chinese: “格克孙”
- Chinese: “格克孫”
- Chinese: “科库索斯”
- Danish: “Goksan”
- Dutch: “Göksun”
- Ewe: “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: “Göksun”
- Portuguese: “Coxon”
- Portuguese: “Cucusus”
- Portuguese: “Göksun”
- 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”
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