Turkey
Van Province
Başkale İlçesi

Başkale

Başkale is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 2,727 km2, and its population is 44,168. The municipality Başkale was established in 1937.
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  • Type: Town with 54,200 residents
  • Description: district of Van, eastern Turkey
  • Also known as: “Adamakert”, “Bash Kaleh”, “Bashkala”, “Baskale”, “Başkale district”, “Elbek”, and “Ադամակերտ”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Güroluk.

Village
is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Başkale, , . Its population is 270. It is 122 km from and 5 km from Başkale. is situated 4½ km north of Başkale.

Başkale

Latitude
38.04491° or 38° 2′ 42″ north
Longitude
44.01627° or 44° 0′ 59″ east
Population
54,200
Elevation
2,297 metres (7,536 feet)
Open location code
8HC622V8+XG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 884078675
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
321940
Wiki­data ID
Q812759
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Başkale” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “باش قلعة”
  • Armenian: “Ադամակերտ”
  • Armenian: “Բաշկալե”
  • Armenian: “Հադամակերտ”
  • Asturian: “Başkale (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Başkale”
  • Catalan: “Adamakert”
  • Catalan: “Bashkale”
  • Catalan: “Başkale”
  • Catalan: “Elbak”
  • Catalan: “Hadamakert”
  • Cebuano: “Başkale İlçesi”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەلباک”
  • Chechen: “Башкале”
  • Chinese: “Başkale”
  • Chinese: “巴什卡莱”
  • Chinese: “巴什卡萊”
  • Dimli (individual language): “elbak”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Elbak”
  • Dutch: “Başkale”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باش قلعه”
  • Esperanto: “Adamakert”
  • Esperanto: “Başkale”
  • Esperanto: “Elbek”
  • Esperanto: “Ադամակերտ”
  • French: “Başkale”
  • Gagauz: “Başkale”
  • German: “Adamakert”
  • German: “Başkale”
  • German: “Elbek”
  • German: “Ադամակերտ”
  • Gilaki: “باش‌قلعه”
  • Ido: “Başkale”
  • Indonesian: “Başkale”
  • Irish: “Başkale”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Başkale”
  • Kurdish: “Başkale”
  • Kurdish: “Elbak”
  • Malay: “Başkale”
  • Mazanderani: “باش‌قلعه”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Başkale”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Başkale”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Başkale”
  • Norwegian: “Başkale”
  • Persian: “باش قلعه”
  • Persian: “باش‌قلعه”
  • Polish: “Başkale”
  • Portuguese: “Adamakert”
  • Portuguese: “Adamaquerte”
  • Portuguese: “Bascale”
  • Portuguese: “Başkale”
  • Portuguese: “Elbak”
  • Russian: “Адамакерт”
  • Russian: “Башкала”
  • Russian: “Башкале”
  • Serbian: “Атамагерд” (historical)
  • Serbian: “Башкале”
  • South Azerbaijani: “باش قالا”
  • Swahili: “Başkale”
  • Tatar: “Башкале”
  • Turkish: “Başkale, Van”
  • Turkish: “Başkale”
  • Urdu: “باش قلعہ”
  • Urdu: “باشقلعہ”
  • Uzbek: “Başkale”
  • Vietnamese: “Başkale”
  • Western Mari: “Башкале”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع باشکالے”
  • “Başkale ilçesi”

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