Turkey
Siirt Province
Baykan İlçesi

Baykan

Baykan is a municipality in the Baykan District of the in . It is populated by Kurds and had a population of 5,544 in 2021. Baykan is divided into the neighbourhoods of Cefan, Havel, İnönü, Karşıyaka and Yenidoğan.
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  • Type: Town with 24,600 residents
  • Description: district and town of Siirt, Turkey
  • Also known as: “Havil”, “Havilhanları”, “Hovil”, and “Huvil”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Obalı and Yeşilçevre.

Village
is a village in the Baykan District of in . The village is populated by Kurds of the Etmanekî tribe and had a population of 378 in 2021. The hamlets of Akbudak, Akdiken, Dumanlı, Köklü, Ocaklı and Yelkesen are attached to .

Village
is a village in the Baykan District of in . The village is populated by Kurds of the Poran tribe and had a population of 169 in 2022. The hamlet of Bahçeli, Çukurtaş, Doğruyol and Eri are attached to . is situated 4 km southwest of Baykan.

Village
is a village in the Baykan District of in . The village is populated by Kurds and had a population of 386 in 2021. It was burned by authorities in 1995, during the Kurdish–Turkish conflict. is situated 4½ km northwest of Baykan.

Baykan

Latitude
38.16287° or 38° 9′ 46″ north
Longitude
41.78569° or 41° 47′ 9″ east
Population
24,600
Elevation
743 metres (2,438 feet)
Open location code
8HC35Q7P+47
Open­Street­Map ID
node 884301792
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
321750
Wiki­data ID
Q812557
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Baykan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بيقان”
  • Arabic: “بَيْقَانُ”
  • Arabic: “قضاء بيقان”
  • Asturian: “Baykan (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Baykan”
  • Catalan: “Baykan”
  • Cebuano: “Baykan”
  • Chechen: “Байкан”
  • Chinese: “Baykan”
  • Chinese: “巴伊坎”
  • Dutch: “Baykan”
  • French: “Baykan”
  • Galician: “Baykan”
  • German: “Baykan”
  • Hungarian: “Baykan”
  • Irish: “Baykan”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Baykan”
  • Kurdish: “Hawêl”
  • Kurdish: “Xana Hawêl”
  • Malay: “Baykan”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Baykan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Baykan”
  • Norwegian: “Baykan”
  • Persian: “بایکان”
  • Russian: “Байкан”
  • Serbian: “Бајкан”
  • Spanish: “Baykan”
  • Swahili: “Baykan”
  • Tatar: “Байкан”
  • Turkish: “Baykan, siirt”
  • Turkish: “Baykan, Siirt”
  • Turkish: “Baykan”
  • Urdu: “بےخان”
  • Uzbek: “Baykan”
  • Vietnamese: “Baykan”
  • Western Mari: “Байкан”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع بیکان”

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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 “Baykan”. Photo: Dûrzan, CC BY-SA 4.0.