Batman
Batman is a city in Southeastern Anatolia, with a population of 492,000 in 2023. It's the chief city of an oil-producing area and is entirely modern. It's pronounced baat-maan, not like the name of the superhero, and in Kurdish is known by its older name of Iluh.
Photo: Ferhat 72, Public domain.
- Type: City with 634,000 residents
- Description: central district and city in Batman Province, Turkey
- Also known as: “Akarere ka Batman”, “Batman City”, “Batman Merkez”, “Batman, Turkey”, “Elih”, “Iloh”, “Jimbo la Batman”, “ئێلھ”, “بَطْمَانُ”, and “バットマン”
- Historically known as: “Iluh”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Batman railway station and Tüpraş Batman Oil Refinery.
Tüpraş Batman Oil Refinery
Tüpraş Batman Oil Refinery is an oil refinery in Batman, southeastern Turkey.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Erköklü and Demiryol.
Batman
- Categories: big city, municipality, and locality
- Location: Batman, Batman Province, Southeastern Anatolia, Turkey, Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Europe
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Latitude
37.8836° or 37° 53′ 1″ north
Longitude
41.1278° or 41° 7′ 40″ east
Population
634,000
Elevation
540 metres (1,772 feet)
IATA airport code
BAL
UN/LOCODE
TR BAL
Open location code
8H93V4MH+C4
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Abkhazian to Yue Chinese—“Batman” goes by many names.
- Abkhazian: “Баҭман”
- Albanian: “Batman”
- Albanian: “Batmani, Turqi”
- Amharic: “ባትማን”
- Arabic: “بطمان”
- Armenian: “Բաթման”
- Asturian: “Batman”
- Azerbaijani: “Batman”
- Basque: “Batman”
- Belarusian: “Батман”
- Bengali: “বাট্মান”
- Bengali: “ব্যাটম্যান, তুরস্ক”
- Bengali: “ব্যাটম্যান”
- Breton: “Batman”
- Bulgarian: “Батман”
- Catalan: “Batman”
- Catalan: “Êlih”
- Cebuano: “Batman”
- Central Kurdish: “ئێلح”
- Chechen: “Батман”
- Chinese: “巴特曼”
- Crimean Tatar: “Batman”
- Croatian: “Batman”
- Czech: “Batman”
- Danish: “Batman”
- Dimli (individual language): “Batman”
- Dutch: “Batman”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بطمان”
- Esperanto: “Batman”
- Estonian: “Batman”
- Finnish: “Batman”
- French: “Batman”
- Gagauz: “Batman”
- Georgian: “ბათმანი”
- German: “Batman”
- Gilaki: “باتمان”
- Greek: “Μπατμάν”
- Gujarati: “બેટમેન”
- Hausa: “Batman”
- Hebrew: “בטמן”
- Hindi: “बैटमैन”
- Hungarian: “Batman”
- Indonesian: “Batman”
- Irish: “Batman”
- Italian: “Batman”
- Japanese: “バトマン”
- Javanese: “Batman”
- Kannada: “ಬಾತ್ಮಾನ್”
- Kannada: “ಬ್ಯಾಟ್ಮ್ಯಾನ್”
- Kazakh: “Батман”
- Kinyarwanda: “Batman”
- Kirghiz: “Батман”
- Korean: “바트만”
- Kurdish: “Êlih”
- Kurdish: “ئێله”
- Latvian: “Batmana”
- Lithuanian: “Batmanas”
- Luxembourgish: “Batman”
- Macedonian: “Батман”
- Malay: “Batman, Turki”
- Malay: “Batman”
- Marathi: “बॅटमॅन”
- Mazanderani: “باتمان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Batman”
- Minangkabau: “Batman”
- Mingrelian: “ბათმანი (ნოღა)”
- Mingrelian: “ბათმანი”
- Moksha: “Батман”
- Nauru: “Batman”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Batman”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Batman i Tyrkia”
- Norwegian: “Batman”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܒܛܡܐܢ”
- Oromo: “Batman”
- Ossetian: “Батман (сахар)”
- Ossetian: “Батман”
- Panjabi: “ਬੈਟਮੈਨ”
- Persian: “باتمان”
- Polish: “Batman”
- Portuguese: “Batman”
- Portuguese: “Batmane”
- Pushto: “بتمن”
- Romanian: “Batman, Turcia”
- Romanian: “Batman”
- Russian: “Батман”
- Scots: “Batman”
- Serbian: “Batman”
- Serbian: “Батман”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Batman”
- Sinhala: “බැට්මෑන්”
- Slovak: “Batman”
- Somali: “Batman”
- South Azerbaijani: “باتمان”
- Spanish: “Batman”
- Swahili: “Batman”
- Swedish: “Batman”
- Tajik: “Батман”
- Tajik: “Ботмон”
- Tamil: “பேட்மேன்”
- Tatar: “Батман (Төркия)”
- Tatar: “Батман”
- Telugu: “బాట్మాన్”
- Thai: “บัตมัน”
- Turkish: “Batman”
- Udmurt: “Батман”
- Ukrainian: “Батман”
- Urdu: “باتمان، ترکی”
- Urdu: “باتمان، ترکیہ”
- Uzbek: “Batman”
- Venetian: “Batman”
- Vietnamese: “Batman”
- Volapük: “Batman”
- Waray (Philippines): “Batman, Turkey”
- Waray (Philippines): “Batman”
- Welsh: “Batman, Twrci”
- Welsh: “Batman”
- Western Armenian: “Էլէհ”
- Western Armenian: “Պաթման”
- Western Mari: “Батман”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع باتمان”
- Wu Chinese: “巴特曼”
- Yue Chinese: “巴特曼”
- “Batman”
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