Altınkum
Altınkum is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Silvan, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey. It is populated by Kurds and had population of 250 in 2022.Photo: Dûrzan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village with 2,000 residents
- Description: mahalle (administrative quarter) in Silvan, Diyarbakır, southeastern Turkey
- Also known as: “Altınkum, Silvan” and “Başqê”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yayıkköy and Karaorman.
Yayıkköy
Village
Yayıkköy is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Kulp, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey. It is populated by Kurds and had a population of 439 in 2022. Yayıkköy is situated 2½ km northeast of Altınkum.
Karaorman
Village
Karaorman is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Kulp, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey. It is populated by Kurds and had a population of 160 in 2022. Karaorman is situated 4 km northeast of Altınkum.
Babakaya
Village
Babakaya is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Silvan, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey. It is populated by Kurds and had population of 334 in 2022. Babakaya is situated 4 km west of Altınkum.
Altınkum
- Categories: mahalle and locality
- Location: Silvan District, Diyarbakır Province, Turkey, Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.26412° or 38° 15′ 51″ northLongitude
41.06163° or 41° 3′ 42″ eastPopulation
2,000Elevation
656 metres (2,152 feet)Open location code
8HC37376+JMOpenStreetMap ID
node 2306151311OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
323921Wikidata ID
Q3673936
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Waray—“Altınkum” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Բաշխա”
- Basque: “Altınkum”
- Catalan: “Altınkum”
- Cebuano: “Altınkum”
- Chechen: “Алтинкум”
- Czech: “Altınkum”
- Danish: “Altınkum”
- Dutch: “Altınkum”
- Finnish: “Altınkum”
- Galician: “Altınkum”
- German: “Altınkum”
- Irish: “Altınkum”
- Italian: “Altınkum”
- Kurdish: “Başqa”
- Kurdish: “Başqê”
- Kurdish: “باشقا”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Altınkum”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Altınkum”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Altınkum”
- Polish: “Altınkum”
- Portuguese: “Altınkum”
- Romanian: “Altınkum”
- Scots: “Altınkum”
- Slovak: “Altınkum”
- Slovenian: “Altınkum”
- Spanish: “Altınkum”
- Swedish: “Altınkum”
- Tagalog: “Altınkum”
- Tatar: “Алтынкум”
- Turkish: “Altınkum, Silvan”
- Turkish: “Altınkum”
- Uzbek: “Altınkum”
- Vietnamese: “Altınkum, Silvan”
- Vietnamese: “Altınkum”
- Waray (Philippines): “Altınkum”
- “Altinkum”
- “Altınkum”
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