Aralık
Aralık is a town in the Iğdır Province in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. It is the seat of Aralık District. Its population is 5,809. Aralık lies near the right bank of the river Aras, across the border from the Armenian town Artashat.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 6,360 residents
- Description: district and town of Iğdır, Turkey
- Also known as: “Aralik”, “Başkend”, and “Başköy”
- Neighbors: Armenia, Iran, and Nakhchivan
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lusarat and Pokr Vedi.
Lusarat
Village
Photo: Liveon001, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lusarat is a village in the Vedi Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia. It is situated adjacent to the Armenia–Turkey border. Lusarat is situated 6 km east of Aralık.
Pokr Vedi
Village
Photo: Michal Gorski, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pokr Vedi is a village in the Vedi Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia. Pokr Vedi is situated 8 km northeast of Aralık.
Shahumyan
Village
Photo: Armineaghayan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Shahumyan is a village in the Artashat Municipality of the Ararat Province of Armenia. It is named after Stepan Shahumyan, a Bolshevik commissar. Shahumyan is situated 9 km northeast of Aralık.
Aralık
- Category: locality
- Location: Aralık District, Iğdır Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
39.8737° or 39° 52′ 25″ northLongitude
44.51604° or 44° 30′ 58″ eastPopulation
6,360Elevation
817 metres (2,680 feet)Open location code
8HF6VGF8+FCOpenStreetMap ID
node 8723157828OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
323735Wikidata ID
Q527626
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Western Mari—“Aralık” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Արալըք”
- Armenian: “Արալիխ”
- Asturian: “Aralık (distritu)”
- Asturian: “Aralık”
- Azerbaijani: “Aralıq”
- Bulgarian: “Аралък”
- Cebuano: “Aralık”
- Central Kurdish: “باشان”
- Chechen: “Аралик”
- Chinese: “Aralık”
- Czech: “Aralikh”
- Czech: “Aralık”
- Czech: “Aralıq”
- Czech: “Başan”
- Czech: “Аралык”
- Czech: “Արալիխ”
- Dimli (individual language): “Başan”
- Dutch: “Aralık”
- Finnish: “Aralık”
- French: “Aralık”
- German: “Aralık”
- Greek: “Αραλίκ”
- Irish: “Aralık”
- Italian: “Distretto di Aralık”
- Japanese: “アラルク”
- Kurdish: “Başan”
- Latvian: “Aralikas rajons”
- Malay: “Aralık”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Aralık”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Aralık”
- Norwegian: “Aralık”
- Persian: “آرالیق”
- Persian: “آرالیک”
- Russian: “Аралык”
- Serbian: “Аралик”
- Swahili: “Aralık”
- Tatar: “Аралык”
- Turkish: “Aralık, Iğdır”
- Turkish: “Aralık”
- Urdu: “ارالیک”
- Vietnamese: “Aralık”
- Western Mari: “Аралык”
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