Ergani
Ergani is a town in Southeastern Anatolia, with a population of 137,000 in 2023. It’s part of Diyarbakır province and is post-industrial, with open-cast mines of iron and copper that are now exhausted, so the town has slumped.
Photo: Abbasturhan, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 64,400 residents
- Description: town of Diyarbakır, Turkey
- Also known as: “Argani”, “Arghana”, “Arghani”, “Ergani (distritu)”, “Ergani kesentaş”, “Erganiosmaniye”, “Erghani”, “Erxanî”, and “Osmaniye”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bahçekaşı and Kıralan.
Yeşilköy
Village
Yeşilköy is a neighbourhood in the municipality and… Yeşilköy is situated 4 km southwest of Ergani.
Ergani
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Diyarbakır Province, Southeastern Anatolia, Turkey, Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Europe
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Latitude
38.269° or 38° 16′ 8″ north
Longitude
39.7609° or 39° 45′ 39″ east
Population
64,400
Elevation
944 metres (3,097 feet)
Open location code
8GCX7Q96+H9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Mari—“Ergani” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أرخني”
- Armenian: “Արկնի”
- Asturian: “Ergani”
- Azerbaijani: “Ergani”
- Catalan: “Ergani”
- Cebuano: “Ergani”
- Central Kurdish: “ئەرخەنی”
- Chechen: “Эргани”
- Chinese: “埃尔加尼”
- Chinese: “埃爾加尼”
- Dimli (individual language): “Erğeni”
- Dutch: “Ergani”
- Esperanto: “Ergani”
- French: “Ergani”
- Gagauz: “Ergani”
- Galician: “Ergani”
- German: “Ergani”
- Gilaki: “ارگاني”
- Greek: “Εργκάνι”
- Hebrew: “ארגני”
- Hungarian: “Ergani”
- Irish: “Ergani”
- Italian: “Ergani”
- Japanese: “エルガニ”
- Kurdish: “Erxenî”
- Kurdish: “ئەرخەنی”
- Lithuanian: “Eganis”
- Malay: “Ergani”
- Mazanderani: “ارگانی”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ergani”
- Minangkabau: “Ergani”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ergani”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ergani”
- Norwegian: “Ergani”
- Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): “عثمانيه”
- Persian: “ارگانی”
- Polish: “Ergani”
- Romanian: “Ergani”
- Russian: “Эграни”
- Russian: “Эргани”
- Serbian: “Ергани”
- South Azerbaijani: “ارقانی”
- Swahili: “Ergani”
- Tatar: “Эргани”
- Turkish: “Ergani”
- Urdu: “ارغنی”
- Urdu: “عرگانی”
- Vietnamese: “Ergani”
- Western Mari: “Эргани”
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