Başiskele
Başiskele, formerly known as Astacus, is a municipality and district of Kocaeli Province, Turkey. Its area is 23 km2, and its population is 116,650. The mayor is Hüseyin Ayaz.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kozluk and Mehmet Ali Paşa.
Kozluk
Suburb
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Kozluk is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of İzmit, Kocaeli Province, Turkey. Kozluk is situated 6 km north of Başiskele.
Mehmet Ali Paşa
Suburb
Mehmet Ali Paşa is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of İzmit, Kocaeli Province, Turkey. Mehmet Ali Paşa is situated 6 km north of Başiskele.
Tepecik
Suburb
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Tepecik is a suburb, which is situated 6 km north of Başiskele.
Başiskele
- Type: Town with 76,600 residents
- Description: district and town in Kocaeli Province, Turkey
- Category: locality
- Location: Kocaeli Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
40.7129° or 40° 42′ 47″ northLongitude
29.9287° or 29° 55′ 43″ eastPopulation
76,600Elevation
387 metres (1,270 feet)Open location code
8GGFPW7H+5FOpenStreetMap ID
node 941362532OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
9548074Wikidata ID
Q2670796
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Mari—“Başiskele” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باشسكلة”
- Arabic: “بَاشِسْكَلَة”
- Armenian: “Բաշիսքելե”
- Asturian: “Başiskele (distritu)”
- Asturian: “Başiskele”
- Cebuano: “Başiskele”
- Chechen: “Башискеле”
- Chinese: “Başiskele”
- Dimli (individual language): “Başiskele”
- Gagauz: “Başiskele”
- German: “Başiskele”
- Gilaki: “باشيسکله”
- Irish: “Başiskele”
- Italian: “Distretto di Başiskele”
- Mazanderani: “باشیسکله”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Başiskele”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Başiskele”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Basiskele”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Başiskele”
- Norwegian: “Başiskele”
- Persian: “باشیسکله”
- Russian: “Башискеле”
- Serbian: “Башискеле”
- South Azerbaijani: “باشیسکله”
- Tatar: “Башискеле”
- Turkish: “Başiskele”
- Ukrainian: “Башіскеле”
- Urdu: “باشیسکلے”
- Western Mari: “Башискеле”
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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 “Başiskele”. Photo: Ceng573, Public domain.