Turkey
Kahramanmaraş Province
Afşin İlçesi

Afşin

Afşin is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 1,502 km2, and its population is 80,044. It is the location of the ancient town Arabissus.
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  • Type: Town with 80,100 residents
  • Description: district of Kahramanmaraş, southern Turkey
  • Also known as: “Afşin district”, “Efsus”, “Ephesós”, and “Yarpus”

Afşin

Latitude
38.24386° or 38° 14′ 38″ north
Longitude
36.91529° or 36° 54′ 55″ east
Population
80,100
Elevation
1,222 metres (4,009 feet)
Open location code
8GCR6WV8+G4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 259835596
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
325304
Wiki­data ID
Q389650
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In Other Languages

From Adyghe to Western Panjabi—“Afşin” goes by many names.
  • Adyghe: “Афщин”
  • Arabic: “افشین”
  • Asturian: “Afşin (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Afşin”
  • Cebuano: “Afşin”
  • Chechen: “Афшин”
  • Chinese: “Afşin”
  • Chinese: “阿夫欣”
  • Dutch: “Afsin”
  • Dutch: “Afşin”
  • French: “Afşin”
  • Gagauz: “Afşin”
  • German: “Afsin”
  • German: “Afşin”
  • Gilaki: “أفشين (شأر)”
  • Gilaki: “أفشين”
  • Irish: “Afşin”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Afşin”
  • Kurdish: “Avşîn, Maraş”
  • Kurdish: “Avşîn, Mereş”
  • Kurdish: “Avşîn”
  • Malay: “Afşin”
  • Mazanderani: “افشین (شهر)”
  • Mazanderani: “افشین”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Afşin”
  • Minangkabau: “Afşin”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Afşin”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Afşin”
  • Norwegian: “Afşin”
  • Persian: “افشین (شهر)”
  • Persian: “افشین”
  • Polish: “Afsin”
  • Polish: “Afşin”
  • Romanian: “Afşin”
  • Romanian: “Afșin”
  • Russian: “Афшин”
  • Serbian: “Афшин”
  • South Azerbaijani: “افشین”
  • Swahili: “Afşin”
  • Tatar: “Афшин”
  • Turkish: “Afşin, Maraş”
  • Turkish: “Afşin”
  • Turkish: “Arabissos”
  • Turkish: “Yarpuz”
  • Ukrainian: “Афшін”
  • Urdu: “افشین”
  • Vietnamese: “Afşin”
  • Western Mari: “Афшин”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع افشن”
  • “Afşin ilçesi”

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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 “Afşin”. Photo: Hüseyin Öcal, CC BY 3.0.