Akalan
Akalan is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Eğil, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey. It is populated by Kurds and had a population of 1,590 in 2022.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 1,600 residents
- Description: mahalle (administrative quarter) in Eğil, Diyarbakır, southeastern Turkey
- Also known as: “Akalan, Eğil” and “Paşiyan”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dicle Dam.
Dicle Dam
Dam
Dicle Dam is one of the 21 dams of the Southeastern Anatolia Project of Turkey. These facilities are located within the provincial territory of Diyarbakır, at a distance of 50 kilometres to Diyarbakır city centre. Dicle Dam is situated 3½ km northwest of Akalan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tepecik and Selman.
Tepecik
Village
Tepecik is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Eğil, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey. It is populated by Kurds and had a population of 351 in 2022. Tepecik is situated 2½ km north of Akalan.
Selman
Village
Photo: Dûrzan cîrano, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Selman is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Eğil, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey. It is populated by Kurds and had a population of 261 in 2022. Selman is situated 3 km west of Akalan.
Babalar
Village
Babalar is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Eğil, Diyarbakır Province in Turkey. Its population is 321. Babalar is situated 3 km east of Akalan.
Akalan
- Categories: mahalle and locality
- Location: Eğil, Diyarbakır Province, Southeastern Anatolia, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
38.2052° or 38° 12′ 19″ northLongitude
40.2012° or 40° 12′ 4″ eastPopulation
1,600Elevation
768 metres (2,520 feet)Open location code
8HC26642+3FOpenStreetMap ID
node 2278439213OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
325049Wikidata ID
Q6011280
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Waray—“Akalan” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Akalan”
- Catalan: “Akalan”
- Cebuano: “Akalan”
- Chechen: “Акалан”
- Czech: “Akalan”
- Danish: “Akalan”
- Dutch: “Akalan”
- Finnish: “Akalan”
- French: “Akalan”
- Galician: “Akalan”
- German: “Akalan”
- Indonesian: “Akalan”
- Irish: “Akalan”
- Italian: “Akalan”
- Kurdish: “Silêmanan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Akalan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Akalan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Akalan”
- Polish: “Akalan”
- Portuguese: “Akalan”
- Romanian: “Akalan”
- Scots: “Akalan”
- Slovak: “Akalan”
- Slovenian: “Akalan”
- Spanish: “Akalan”
- Swedish: “Akalan”
- Tagalog: “Akalan”
- Tatar: “Акалан (Эгыйль)”
- Tatar: “Акалан”
- Turkish: “Akalan, Eğil”
- Turkish: “Akalan”
- Uzbek: “Akalan”
- Vietnamese: “Akalan, Eğil”
- Vietnamese: “Akalan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Akalan”
- “Akalan”
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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 “Akalan”. Photo: Dûrzan cîrano, CC BY-SA 3.0.