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Diyarbakır Province

Diyarbakır

Diyarbakır is the largest city in . It is on the Tigris, one of the greatest rivers of the , and is considered by many to be the capital of the Kurdish people.
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  • Type: City with 1,800,000 residents
  • Description: city in Southeastern Anatolia, Turkey
  • Also known as: “Amed”, “Amida”, “Diarbekir”, “Diari-Békir”, “Dikranakerd”, “Diyarbakir”, and “Diyarıbakır”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Surp Giragos Church and Diyarbakır Archaeological Museum.

Church
Photo: Rob, GFDL.
The Church of St. Giragos or is a historic Armenian Apostolic church in Diyarbakır, . It is the largest Armenian church in the .

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

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

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bağlar and Yenişehir.

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 Diyarbakır and the adjacent countryside.

Town
Photo: Sonrisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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 Diyarbakır and the adjacent countryside.

Town
Photo: Bdell555, Public domain.
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 Diyarbakır and the adjacent countryside.

Diyarbakır

Latitude
37.9162° or 37° 54′ 58″ north
Longitude
40.2364° or 40° 14′ 11″ east
Population
1,800,000
Elevation
674 metres (2,211 feet)
IATA airport code
DIY
United Nations Location Code
TR DIY
Open location code
8H92W68P+FG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26487666
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
316541
Wiki­data ID
Q83387
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Diyarbakır” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Diyarbakır”
  • Albanian: “Dijarbakër”
  • Arabic: “ديار بكر”
  • Arabic: “دياربكر”
  • Armenian: “Դիարբեքիր”
  • Asturian: “Diyarbakır”
  • Azerbaijani: “Diyarbəkir”
  • Bashkir: “Диярбаҡыр”
  • Basque: “Amed”
  • Basque: “Diyarbakır”
  • Belarusian: “Дыярбакыр”
  • Bengali: “দিয়ারবাকর”
  • Breton: “Diyarbakir”
  • Breton: “Diyarbakır”
  • Bulgarian: “Диарбекир”
  • Bulgarian: “Диярбакър”
  • Catalan: “Amed”
  • Catalan: “Amedi”
  • Catalan: “Amida”
  • Catalan: “Diyar Bakir”
  • Catalan: “Diyar Bakr”
  • Catalan: “Diyar Bekir”
  • Catalan: “Diyarbakir”
  • Catalan: “Diyarbakır”
  • Catalan: “Diyarbakr”
  • Catalan: “Diyarbekir”
  • Cebuano: “Diyarbakır (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Diyarbakır”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئامەد”
  • Central Kurdish: “دیاربەکر”
  • Chechen: “Дийарбакир”
  • Chinese: “Diyarbakır”
  • Chinese: “迪亚巴克尔”
  • Chinese: “迪亞巴克爾”
  • Croatian: “Diyarbakır”
  • Czech: “Amed”
  • Czech: “Diyarbakir”
  • Czech: “Diyarbakır”
  • Danish: “Diyarbakir”
  • Danish: “Diyarbakır”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Diyarbekır”
  • Dutch: “DiyarbakIr (stad)”
  • Dutch: “Diyarbakir”
  • Dutch: “Diyarbakır”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ديار بكر”
  • Esperanto: “Dijarbakiro”
  • Esperanto: “Diyarbakir”
  • Esperanto: “Diyarbakır”
  • Estonian: “Diyarbakır”
  • Finnish: “Diyarbakir”
  • Finnish: “Diyarbakır”
  • French: “Diarbékir”
  • French: “Diyarbakir”
  • French: “Diyarbakır”
  • French: “Diyarbekir”
  • French: “Dyarbekir”
  • Gagauz: “Diyarbakır”
  • Georgian: “დიარბაქირი”
  • German: “Amed”
  • German: “Dijar Bekr”
  • German: “Dijârbekr”
  • German: “Diyarbakir”
  • German: “Diyarbakır”
  • German: “Diyarbakýr”
  • German: “Diyarbekir”
  • Gilaki: “دياربکر”
  • Greek: “Άμιδα”
  • Greek: “Ντιγιαρμπακίρ”
  • Greek: “Ντιγιάρμπακιρ”
  • Gujarati: “દિયાર્બાકીર”
  • Hebrew: “דיארבקיר”
  • Hebrew: “דיארבקר”
  • Hindi: “डियारबकिर”
  • Hindi: “दियारबाकिर”
  • Hungarian: “Diyarbakır”
  • Indonesian: “Diyar Bakr”
  • Indonesian: “Diyarbakir”
  • Indonesian: “Diyarbakır”
  • Irish: “Diyarbakır”
  • Italian: “Amed”
  • Italian: “Amida”
  • Italian: “Diyarbakir”
  • Italian: “Diyarbakır”
  • Italian: “Diyarbekır”
  • Japanese: “ディヤルバクル”
  • Javanese: “Diyarbakır”
  • Kannada: “ಡಿಯರ್ಬಾಕಿರ್”
  • Kazakh: “Диярбакыр”
  • Kazakh: “Диярбақыр”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Diyarbakır”
  • Korean: “디야르바크르”
  • Korean: “디야르바키르”
  • Kotava: “Diyarbakır”
  • Kurdish: “Amed”
  • Kurdish: “Diyarbakir”
  • Kurdish: “Diyarbekir”
  • Kurdish: “Diyarbekîr”
  • Latin: “Amida”
  • Latvian: “Dijarbakira”
  • Lithuanian: “Dijarbakiras”
  • Lithuanian: “Dijarbakyras”
  • Macedonian: “Дијарбакир”
  • Macedonian: “Дијарбекир”
  • Malagasy: “Diyarbakır”
  • Malay: “Diyarbakir”
  • Malay: “Diyarbakır”
  • Marathi: “दियारबाकीर”
  • Mazanderani: “دیاربکر”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Diyarbakır”
  • Minangkabau: “Diyarbakır”
  • Nauru: “Diyarbakır”
  • Northern Luri: “دیاربکر”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Diyarbakir”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Diyarbakır”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Diyarbakır”
  • Norwegian: “Diyarbakır”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Diyarbakır”
  • Ossetian: “Диярбакыр”
  • Persian: “دیار بکر”
  • Persian: “دیاربکر”
  • Polish: “Amida”
  • Polish: “Diyarbakir”
  • Polish: “Diyarbakır”
  • Portuguese: “Amed”
  • Portuguese: “Amid”
  • Portuguese: “Amida”
  • Portuguese: “Diarbaquir”
  • Portuguese: “Diyarbakir”
  • Portuguese: “Diyarbakır”
  • Pushto: “دیاربکر”
  • Romanian: “Diarbekir”
  • Romanian: “Diyarbakir”
  • Romanian: “Diyarbakır”
  • Russian: “Амид, город”
  • Russian: “Диарбекир”
  • Russian: “Диярбакир”
  • Russian: “Диярбакыр”
  • Scots: “Diyarbakır”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Amed”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Diyarbakır”
  • Serbian: “Diyarbakır”
  • Serbian: “Дијарбакир”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Diyarbakır”
  • Silesian: “Diyarbakır”
  • Sinhala: “දියාබාකිර්”
  • Slovak: “Amed”
  • Slovak: “Amida”
  • Slovak: “Dijarbakir”
  • Slovak: “Diyarbakır”
  • Slovak: “Tigranakert”
  • Slovenian: “Dijar Bakr”
  • Slovenian: “Diyarbakır”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دیاربکر”
  • Spanish: “Amid”
  • Spanish: “Diyarbakir”
  • Spanish: “Diyarbakır”
  • Spanish: “Diyarbarkir”
  • Swahili: “Diyarbakır”
  • Swahili: “Jimbo la Diyarbakır”
  • Swedish: “Amed”
  • Swedish: “Diarbakir”
  • Swedish: “Diarbekir”
  • Swedish: “Diarbekr”
  • Swedish: “Dikranagert”
  • Swedish: “Dikranagěrt”
  • Swedish: “Diyabakır”
  • Swedish: “Diyar Bakr”
  • Swedish: “Diyarbakir”
  • Swedish: “Diyarbakır Province”
  • Swedish: “Diyarbakır”
  • Swedish: “Diyarbakr”
  • Swedish: “Diyarbarkir”
  • Swedish: “Diyarbekir”
  • Swedish: “Diyarbekr”
  • Swedish: “Tigranakert”
  • Tajik: “Диёрбакр”
  • Tajik: “Диёрбоқир”
  • Talysh: “Dijarbakyr”
  • Talysh: “Diyarbakır”
  • Tamil: “டியார்பாகிற்”
  • Tatar: “Диярбакыр”
  • Telugu: “డయర్బకిర్”
  • Thai: “ดียาร์บากือร์”
  • Thai: “ดียาร์บาคือร์”
  • Turkish: “Diyar-ı Bekir”
  • Turkish: “Diyarbakır”
  • Turkish: “Diyarbekir”
  • Turkish: “Diyarıbekir”
  • Twi: “Diyarbakır”
  • Udmurt: “Диярбакыр”
  • Ukrainian: “Діярбакир”
  • Urdu: “دیار باکر”
  • Urdu: “دیار بکر”
  • Uzbek: “Diyorbakir”
  • Venetian: “Diyarbakır”
  • Vietnamese: “Diyarbakir”
  • Vietnamese: “Diyarbakır”
  • Volapük: “Diyarbakır”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Diyarbakır”
  • Welsh: “Diyarbakir”
  • Welsh: “Diyarbakır”
  • Western Armenian: “Տիարպեքիր”
  • Western Mari: “Диярбакыр”
  • Western Panjabi: “دیا باکر”
  • Western Panjabi: “دیاربکر”
  • Wu Chinese: “迪亚巴克尔”
  • Yue Chinese: “迪亞巴克爾”

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