Akçakale
Akçakale is a municipality and district of Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,038 km2, and its population is 123,721. Akçakale forms a divided city with Tell Abyad in Syria, maintaining a border crossing.- Type: Town with 105,000 residents
- Description: district and town of Şanlıurfa, Turkey
- Also known as: “Akcekale” and “Akchakale”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tell Abyad.
Tell Abyad
Photo: Kevorkmail, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tell Abyad also spelled Tal Abyad, is a town in northern Syria. It is the administrative center of the Tell Abyad District within the Raqqa Governorate.
Akçakale
- Categories: border city and locality
- Location: Akçakale İlçesi, Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey, Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.7083° or 36° 42′ 30″ northLongitude
38.94868° or 38° 56′ 55″ eastPopulation
105,000Elevation
361 metres (1,184 feet)Open location code
8G8WPW5X+8FOpenStreetMap ID
node 3583978567OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
324944Wikidata ID
Q424700
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Mari—“Akçakale” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أقجة قلعة”
- Arabic: “أكجكاله”
- Arabic: “أكشاكالا”
- Armenian: “Թել-Էլ-Աբյադ”
- Asturian: “Akçakale (distritu)”
- Asturian: “Akçakale”
- Azerbaijani: “Ağcaqala”
- Cebuano: “Akçakale İlçesi”
- Central Kurdish: “کانیی غەزاڵان”
- Chechen: “Акчакале”
- Chinese: “Akçakale”
- Chinese: “阿克恰卡莱”
- Chinese: “阿克恰卡萊”
- Czech: “Akcakale”
- Czech: “Akçakale”
- Dimli (individual language): “Akçakale”
- Dimli (individual language): “Aqçeqele”
- Dimli (individual language): “Hêniyê Ğezalan”
- Dutch: “Akçakale”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اقجة قلعه”
- French: “Akçakale (Şanlıurfa)”
- French: “Akçakale”
- Gagauz: “Akçakale”
- German: “Akcakale”
- German: “Akçakale”
- Gilaki: “آقچهقلعه (تۊرکيه)”
- Gilaki: “آقچهقلعه”
- Hungarian: “Akçakale”
- Interlingue: “Akçakale”
- Irish: “Akçakale”
- Italian: “Akçakale”
- Japanese: “アクチャカレ”
- Kurdish: “Girê Spî”
- Kurdish: “Kaniya Xezalan”
- Kurdish: “Tilebyad”
- Lithuanian: “Akčakalė”
- Malay: “Akçakale”
- Mazanderani: “آقچهقلعه (ترکیه)”
- Mazanderani: “آقچهقلعه”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Akçakale”
- Minangkabau: “Akçakale”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Akçakale”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Akcakale”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Akçakale”
- Norwegian: “Akçakale”
- Persian: “آقچهقلعه”
- Persian: “آک چاکاله”
- Persian: “آکچاکاله”
- Persian: “اک چاکاله”
- Persian: “اکچاکاله”
- Polish: “Akcakale”
- Polish: “Akçakale”
- Romanian: “Akcakale”
- Romanian: “Akçakale”
- Russian: “Акчакале”
- Scots: “Akçakale”
- Serbian: “Акчакале”
- Slovenian: “Akçakale”
- South Azerbaijani: “آغچاقالا”
- Spanish: “Akçakale”
- Swahili: “Akçakale”
- Tatar: “Акчакале”
- Turkish: “Akçakale, Şanlıurfa”
- Turkish: “Akçakale”
- Urdu: “اکچاکالے”
- Venetian: “Akçakale”
- Vietnamese: “Akcakale”
- Vietnamese: “Akçakale”
- Western Mari: “Акчакале”
- “Akçakale”
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