Sur

Sur is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 1,227 km2, and its population is 100,613. It covers the eastern part of the city of and the adjacent countryside.
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  • Type: Town with 57,900 residents
  • Description: district of Diyarbakır, southeastern Turkey
  • Also known as: “Sur, Diyarbakır”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Surp Giragos Church and Diyarbakır Archaeological Museum.

Church
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The Church of St. Giragos or is a historic Armenian Apostolic church in , . It is the largest Armenian church in the .

Museum
Photo: Dosseman, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an archaeological museum in , .

Mosque
Photo: MikaelF, CC BY-SA 3.0.
or Sheikh Mutahhar Mosque is a historical in , Turkey, best known for its unique minaret based on four columns, dubbed the Four-legged Minaret.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Diyarbakır and Bağlar.

Photo: Adam Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is the largest city in . Its 2024 population of 1,165,000 are mostly Kurdish, who call it Amed, and it’s been a flashpoint in the struggle for Kurdish autonomy.

Town
is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 429 km2, and its population is 406,471. It covers the southwestern part of the city of and the adjacent countryside.

Town
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is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 358 km2, and its population is 219,759. It covers the southwestern part of the city of and the adjacent countryside.

Sur

Latitude
37.9111° or 37° 54′ 40″ north
Longitude
40.2367° or 40° 14′ 12″ east
Population
57,900
Elevation
674 metres (2,211 feet)
Open location code
8H92W66P+CM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3384307097
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
9565377
Wiki­data ID
Q664716
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Mari—“Sur” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “السور”
  • Arabic: “سور (ديار بكر)”
  • Arabic: “سُورٌ”
  • Arabic: “قضاء سور”
  • Armenian: “Սուր”
  • Asturian: “Sur (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Sur”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sur (Diyarbəkir)”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sur”
  • Catalan: “Sur”
  • Central Kurdish: “سوور، ئامەد”
  • Chechen: “Сур”
  • Chinese: “蘇爾”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Sur, Diyarbekır”
  • French: “Sur”
  • German: “Sur”
  • Greek: “Σουρ”
  • Hungarian: “Sur”
  • Irish: “Sur”
  • Kurdish: “Sûr, Amed”
  • Kurdish: “Sûr”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sur”
  • Norwegian: “Sur”
  • Persian: “سور (دیاربکر)”
  • Persian: “سور”
  • Serbian: “Сур”
  • Spanish: “Sur”
  • Tatar: “Сур (Диярбакыр)”
  • Tatar: “Сур”
  • Turkish: “Diyarbakır Sur”
  • Turkish: “Sur, Diyarbakır”
  • Turkish: “Sur”
  • Urdu: “سور، دیار بکر”
  • Western Mari: “Сур”

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