Turkey
SE Anatolia
Diyarbakır Province

Eğil

Eğil is a town in . It's a district in Diyarbakır Province of Turkey, and is home to a population of nearly 21,500 people. The town is regionally famous for its historic site called the "Prophets' Tombs".
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  • Type: Town with 11,500 residents
  • Description: ilçe (district), administrative county of Diyarbakır, southeastern Turkey
  • Also known as: “Aşipalis”, “Egil”, “Eğil district”, “Encil”, and “Enigelene”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ilgın and Balım.

Village
is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Eğil, in Turkey. It is populated by Kurds and had a population of 477 in 2022.

Village
is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Eğil, in Turkey. It is populated by Kurds and had a population of 300 in 2022. is situated 4½ km north of Eğil.

Eğil

Latitude
38.2576° or 38° 15′ 27″ north
Longitude
40.0845° or 40° 5′ 4″ east
Population
11,500
Elevation
861 metres (2,825 feet)
Open location code
8HC2735M+2R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 134459260
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
315953
Wiki­data ID
Q1023322
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Mari—“Eğil” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إكيل”
  • Arabic: “إِكِيل”
  • Arabic: “قضاء إكيل”
  • Armenian: “Ագիլ”
  • Asturian: “Eğil (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Eğil”
  • Cebuano: “Eğil İlçesi”
  • Central Kurdish: “گێل”
  • Chechen: “ЭгӀил”
  • Chinese: “Eğil”
  • Chinese: “埃伊爾”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Eğil”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Gêl”
  • Dutch: “Eğil”
  • French: “Eğil”
  • German: “Eğil”
  • Greek: “Εγκίλ”
  • Greek: “Καρκαθιόκερτα”
  • Irish: “Eğil”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Eğil”
  • Kurdish: “Egil”
  • Kurdish: “Êgil”
  • Kurdish: “Gêl”
  • Kurdish: “ئێگل”
  • Malay: “Eğil”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Eğil”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Eğil”
  • Norwegian: “Eğil”
  • Persian: “اغیل (ترکیه)”
  • Persian: “اغیل”
  • Portuguese: “Eğil”
  • Portuguese: “Eil”
  • Russian: “Эгиль”
  • Serbian: “Егил”
  • Swahili: “Eğil”
  • Tatar: “Егыйл (Эгыйль)”
  • Tatar: “Егыйл”
  • Turkish: “Eğil”
  • Urdu: “اگیل”
  • Vietnamese: “Eğil”
  • Western Mari: “Эгиль”
  • “Eğil ilçesi”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Eğil”. Photo: Dûrzan cîrano, CC BY-SA 3.0.