Middle East
Turkey
Şanlıurfa Province

Harran

Harran is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 904 km2, and its population is 96,072. It is approximately 40 kilometres southeast of Urfa and 20 kilometres from the border crossing at .
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  • Type: Town with 83,100 residents
  • Description: district and town in Şanlıurfa, Turkey and ancient city in Upper Mesopotamia
  • Also known as: “Harran Ilcesi”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Harran Castle.

The or Harran Citadel is a castle ruin in Harran, Turkey. Most of the present structure dates to the Ayyubid Sultanate c. 1200 but the castle is substantially older.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Harran Plain.

Locality
Photo: Volker Höhfeld, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a locality, which is situated 3½ km north of Harran.

Harran

Latitude
36.871° or 36° 52′ 16″ north
Longitude
39.0251° or 39° 1′ 31″ east
Population
83,100
Elevation
489 metres (1,604 feet)
Open location code
8G8XV2CG+C3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 130178855
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
439166
Wiki­data ID
Q199547
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Harran” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Harran”
  • Amharic: “ካራን”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Κάρραι”
  • Arabic: “حران”
  • Armenian: “Խառան”
  • Asturian: “Harran (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Harran”
  • Azerbaijani: “Harran”
  • Basque: “Harran”
  • Belarusian: “Харан”
  • Bulgarian: “Харан”
  • Catalan: “Carres”
  • Catalan: “Carrhae”
  • Catalan: “Harran”
  • Cebuano: “Harran İlçesi”
  • Central Kurdish: “حەڕان”
  • Chechen: “ХӀарран”
  • Chinese: “Harran”
  • Chinese: “卡雷”
  • Chinese: “哈兰”
  • Chinese: “哈尔兰”
  • Chinese: “哈蘭”
  • Chinese: “赫伦”
  • Chinese: “赫倫”
  • Croatian: “Haran”
  • Czech: “Harran”
  • Czech: “Karrhy”
  • Danish: “Carrhae”
  • Danish: “Harran”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Harran”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Heran”
  • Dutch: “Harran”
  • Esperanto: “Carrhae”
  • Esperanto: “Harran”
  • Finnish: “Carrhae”
  • Finnish: “Harran”
  • Finnish: “Karrhai”
  • French: “Carrhae”
  • French: “Carrhes”
  • French: “Harran”
  • Galician: “Carres”
  • Galician: “Carrhae”
  • Galician: “Harran”
  • Galician: “Harrán”
  • Galician: “Helenópolis”
  • Galician: “Hindanu”
  • Georgian: “ჰარანი”
  • German: “Carrhae”
  • German: “Charan”
  • German: “Charran”
  • German: “Harran”
  • German: “Karrhae”
  • German: “Karrhai”
  • Greek: “Κάρρες Κιλικίας”
  • Greek: “Χαρράν”
  • Hebrew: “חרן”
  • Hebrew: “פדן ארם”
  • Hungarian: “Harrán”
  • Indonesian: “Harran”
  • Irish: “Harran”
  • Italian: “Harran”
  • Italian: “Ḥarrān”
  • Japanese: “カルラエ”
  • Japanese: “ハッラーン”
  • Japanese: “ハラン”
  • Korean: “하란”
  • Kurdish: “Haran”
  • Kurdish: “Harran”
  • Kurdish: “Herran”
  • Kurdish: “Xaran”
  • Kurdish: “Xarran”
  • Kurdish: “حەرران”
  • Latin: “Carrhae”
  • Lithuanian: “Carrhae”
  • Lithuanian: “Haranas”
  • Lithuanian: “Paddan-Aram”
  • Macedonian: “Харан”
  • Malagasy: “Harana”
  • Malagasy: “Haràna”
  • Malay: “Harran”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Harran”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Harran”
  • Norwegian: “Harran”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܚܪܢ”
  • Persian: “حران”
  • Persian: “حرّان”
  • Polish: “Carhae”
  • Polish: “Charan”
  • Polish: “Harran”
  • Portuguese: “Carras”
  • Portuguese: “Carrhae”
  • Portuguese: “Harã”
  • Portuguese: “Haran”
  • Portuguese: “Harran”
  • Romanian: “Harran”
  • Russian: “Карры”
  • Russian: “Харран”
  • Scots: “Harran”
  • Serbian: “Haran”
  • Serbian: “Харан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Carrhae”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Harran”
  • Slovenian: “Harran”
  • Spanish: “Carrhae”
  • Spanish: “Harran”
  • Spanish: “Harrán”
  • Spanish: “Jaran”
  • Spanish: “Jarán”
  • Swahili: “Harran”
  • Swedish: “Carrhae”
  • Swedish: “Haran”
  • Swedish: “Harran”
  • Tagalog: “Haran”
  • Tagalog: “Harran”
  • Tagalog: “Jaran”
  • Tajik: “Ҳаррон”
  • Tatar: “Харран (Һарран)”
  • Tatar: “Харран”
  • Turkish: “Harran İlçesi”
  • Turkish: “Harran”
  • Ukrainian: “Карри”
  • Ukrainian: “Харран”
  • Urdu: “حران”
  • Vietnamese: “Harran”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Harran”
  • Western Mari: “Харран”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع حران”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع ہاران”
  • Wu Chinese: “哈兰 (土耳其)”
  • Wu Chinese: “哈兰（土耳其）”
  • Yiddish: “חרן”

Places with the Same Name

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

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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 “Harran”. Photo: Zhengan, CC BY-SA 4.0.