Middle East
Turkey
Van Province

Çatak

Çatak is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 1,952 km2, and its population is 18,462. Its inhabitants are Kurds. As mayor Abdürrahman Şeylan from the Justice and Development Party was elected in the local elections in March 2019, Sercan Sakarya is the current Kaymakam, installed in August 2022.
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  • Type: Town with 20,900 residents
  • Description: district of Van, eastern Turkey
  • Also known as: “Catak”, “Catak (District), Van”, “Catak Bucagi”, “Çatak district”, “Şatak”, “Şatakh”, “Shadakh”, and “Tağ”

Çatak

Latitude
38.0069° or 38° 0′ 25″ north
Longitude
43.0592° or 43° 3′ 33″ east
Population
20,900
Elevation
1,836 metres (6,024 feet)
Open location code
8HC52345+QM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 206261233
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
9807307
Wiki­data ID
Q272667
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Çatak” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جاتاق”
  • Armenian: “Շատախ”
  • Asturian: “Çatak (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Çatak”
  • Azerbaijani: “Çatağ”
  • Cebuano: “Çatak İlçesi”
  • Chechen: “Чатак”
  • Chinese: “Çatak”
  • Chinese: “恰塔克”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Çatak”
  • Dutch: “Çatak”
  • French: “Çatak”
  • German: “Çatak”
  • Hungarian: “Çatak”
  • Ido: “Çatak (Van)”
  • Ido: “Çatak”
  • Irish: “Çatak”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Çatak”
  • Japanese: “シャタク (トルコ)”
  • Kurdish: “Şax (Wan)”
  • Kurdish: “Şax, Wan”
  • Kurdish: “Şax”
  • Kurdish: “Şetax”
  • Malay: “Çatak (Daerah)”
  • Malay: “Çatak (District), Van”
  • Malay: “Çatak, Van”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Çatak”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Çatak”
  • Norwegian: “Çatak”
  • Persian: “چاتاک”
  • Russian: “Чатак”
  • Russian: “Шатах”
  • Serbian: “Чатак”
  • South Azerbaijani: “چاتاک”
  • Swahili: “Çatak (District)”
  • Swahili: “Çatak, Van”
  • Tatar: “Чатак”
  • Turkish: “Çatak Bucağı”
  • Turkish: “Çatak, Van”
  • Turkish: “Çatak”
  • Urdu: “چاتاک”
  • Uzbek: “Çatak”
  • Vietnamese: “Çatak”
  • Western Armenian: “Շատախ (գաւառ)”
  • Western Armenian: “Շատախ”
  • Western Mari: “Чатак”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع چاتک”
  • “Çatak ilçesi”

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