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Gaziantep Province

Gaziantep

Gaziantep is a city in . Although it is a major city in Turkey and known as the Turkish capital of gastronomy, it counts very few international tourists. It has a quiet atmosphere and the locals are friendly.
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  • Type: City with 2,160,000 residents
  • Description: city in Turkey
  • Also known as: “Ain-Tab”, “Antep”, and “Gazi-Ayintap”
  • Historically known as: “Aintab”
Photo: Liselottediehl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Emin Başar ÖZDEMİR, CC BY 3.0.
Photo: Ben Bender, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Photo: Dosseman, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gaziantep Castle and Zeugma Mosaic Museum.

Castle
Photo: Kpisimon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a castle on top of a mound in the centre of Gaziantep, Turkey. First used as an observation point during the Hittite Empire, it was expanded into a castle during Roman rule. The castle was severely damaged by earthquakes in February 2023.

Museum
Photo: Atomsaskal, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, in the city of Gaziantep, , is the biggest mosaic museum in the world, containing 1700 m2 of mosaics. It opened to the public on 9 September 2011.

Mosque
Photo: Dosseman, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Liberation Mosque, formerly the St. Mary's Cathedral or Holy Mother of God Church, is located in the Tepebaşı district of , Gaziantep in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Şahinbey and Şehitkamil.

Town
is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 960 km2, and its population is 941,055. It was named after Şahin Bey, a Turkish National Movement commander.

Town
is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 1,290 km2, and its population is 857,167. It covers the northern part of the agglomeration of Gaziantep and the adjacent countryside.

Suburb
is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of , , . Its population is 1,194.

Gaziantep

Latitude
37.0628° or 37° 3′ 46″ north
Longitude
37.3793° or 37° 22′ 45″ east
Population
2,160,000
Elevation
842 metres (2,762 feet)
IATA airport code
GZT
United Nations Location Code
TR GZT
Open location code
8G9V397H+4P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26487670
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
314830
Wiki­data ID
Q93338
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Gaziantep” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Gaziantep”
  • Albanian: “Gaziantep”
  • Albanian: “Gaziantepi”
  • Arabic: “عنتاب”
  • Arabic: “عين تاب”
  • Arabic: “عَيْنُ تَاب”
  • Arabic: “عينتاب”
  • Arabic: “غازي عين تاب”
  • Armenian: “Այնթապ” (historical)
  • Armenian: “Անթեպ”
  • Armenian: “Գազիանթեպ”
  • Armenian: “Գազիանթեփ”
  • Asturian: “Gaziantep”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qaziantep”
  • Bashkir: “Ғазиантеп”
  • Basque: “Gaziantep”
  • Belarusian: “Газіянтэп”
  • Belarusian: “Газыянтэп”
  • Bengali: “গাজিয়ানতেপ”
  • Bosnian: “Gaziantep”
  • Breton: “Gaziantep”
  • Bulgarian: “Антеп”
  • Bulgarian: “Газиантеп”
  • Catalan: “Ain Tab”
  • Catalan: “Ain-Tab”
  • Catalan: “Aïn-Tab”
  • Catalan: “Aintab”
  • Catalan: “Anteb”
  • Catalan: “Antep”
  • Catalan: “Anthap”
  • Catalan: “Ayn Tab”
  • Catalan: “Ayntab”
  • Catalan: “Gaziantep”
  • Catalan: “Hamtab”
  • Cebuano: “Gaziantep”
  • Central Kurdish: “دیلۆک”
  • Central Kurdish: “گازی ئانتەپ”
  • Chechen: “Газиантеп”
  • Chinese: “加济安泰普”
  • Chinese: “加济安泰普市”
  • Chinese: “加濟安泰普”
  • Chinese: “艾因塔布”
  • Chuvash: “Газиантеп”
  • Croatian: “Gaziantep”
  • Czech: “Gaziantep”
  • Danish: “Gaziantep”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Eyntab”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Qazianteb”
  • Dutch: “Aintap”
  • Dutch: “Ayintap”
  • Dutch: “Gaziantep”
  • Dutch: “Hantap”
  • Dutch: “Kala-i Pusus”
  • Eastern Mari: “Газиантеп”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “عينتاب”
  • Esperanto: “Gaziantep”
  • Esperanto: “Gaziantepo”
  • Estonian: “Gaziantep”
  • Finnish: “Aintab”
  • Finnish: “Gaziantep”
  • French: “Aintab”
  • French: “Antep”
  • French: “Gaziantep”
  • Gagauz: “Gaziantep”
  • Galician: “Gaziantep”
  • Georgian: “გაზიანთეფი”
  • German: “Aintab”
  • German: “Antaib”
  • German: “Antep”
  • German: “Dîlok”
  • German: “Entep”
  • German: “Gaziantep”
  • Gilaki: “غازي عینتاب”
  • Greek: “Γκαζιαντέπ”
  • Gujarati: “ગાઝિયાન્તેપ”
  • Hausa: “Gaziantep”
  • Hebrew: “אנטפ”
  • Hebrew: “גזיאנטפ”
  • Hebrew: “ענתאב”
  • Hindi: “गाज़ीअंटेप”
  • Hindi: “गाझियान्तेप”
  • Hungarian: “Gaziantep”
  • Ido: “Gaziantep”
  • Indonesian: “Gaziantep”
  • Interlingue: “Gaziantep”
  • Irish: “Gaziantep”
  • Italian: “Doliche”
  • Italian: “Gaziantep”
  • Japanese: “ガジーアンテップ”
  • Japanese: “ガジアンテップ”
  • Japanese: “ガジアンテプ”
  • Japanese: “ガズィアンテプ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Gaziantep”
  • Kannada: “ಗಾಜ಼ಿ ಆಂಟೆಪ್”
  • Kannada: “ಗಾಝಿಯಾನ್ಟೆಪ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Gaziantep”
  • Kazakh: “Gazïantep”
  • Kazakh: “Газиантеп”
  • Kazakh: “گازىيانتەپ”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Gaziantep”
  • Kirghiz: “Газиантеп”
  • Korean: “가지안테프”
  • Korean: “돌리케”
  • Kurdish: “Antep”
  • Kurdish: “Dilok”
  • Kurdish: “Dîlok”
  • Kurdish: “Duluk”
  • Kurdish: “Entap”
  • Kurdish: “Enteb”
  • Kurdish: “Gaziantep”
  • Kurdish: “دیلۆک”
  • Lak: “Гъазиантеп”
  • Latin: “Gaziantep”
  • Latvian: “Gaziantepa”
  • Lithuanian: “Aintabas”
  • Lithuanian: “Gaziantepas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Antep”
  • Luxembourgish: “Gaziantep”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Gaziantep”
  • Macedonian: “Газиантеп”
  • Malay: “Gaziantep”
  • Maltese: “Gaziantep”
  • Marathi: “गाझियान्तेप”
  • Mazanderani: “غازی عینتاب”
  • Minangkabau: “Gaziantep”
  • Mingrelian: “გაზიანთეფი”
  • Moksha: “Газиянтэп”
  • Nauru: “Gaziantep”
  • Northern Luri: “غازی‌عینتاب”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Aïntap”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Antep”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gaziantep”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gaziantep”
  • Norwegian: “Gaziantep”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Gaziantep”
  • Ossetian: “Газиантеп”
  • Panjabi: “ਗਜਿਆਂਤੇਪ”
  • Persian: “غازی آنتپ”
  • Persian: “غازی عینتاب”
  • Persian: “غازیان‌تپه”
  • Polish: “Gaziantep”
  • Portuguese: “Ain-Tab”
  • Portuguese: “Aintab”
  • Portuguese: “Antep”
  • Portuguese: “Antiochia ad Taurum”
  • Portuguese: “Antioquia no Tauro”
  • Portuguese: “Ayintap”
  • Portuguese: “Dîlok”
  • Portuguese: “Doliche”
  • Portuguese: “Dolique”
  • Portuguese: “Gaziantep”
  • Portuguese: “Gaziantepe”
  • Portuguese: “Teluche”
  • Pushto: “غازی آنتپ”
  • Romanian: “Antep”
  • Romanian: “Gaziantep”
  • Russian: “Айнтап”
  • Russian: “Антеп”
  • Russian: “Газиантеп”
  • Scots: “Gaziantep”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Gaziantep”
  • Serbian: “Gaziantep”
  • Serbian: “Gazijantep”
  • Serbian: “Газиантеп”
  • Serbian: “Газијантеп”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gaziantep”
  • Silesian: “Gaziantep”
  • Sinhala: “ගාසින්ටෙප්”
  • Slovenian: “Gaziantep”
  • Somali: “Gaziantep”
  • South Azerbaijani: “غازی عینتاب”
  • Spanish: “Aintab”
  • Spanish: “Aïntab”
  • Spanish: “Antep”
  • Spanish: “Ayintap”
  • Spanish: “Gaziantep”
  • Spanish: “ʿAintab”
  • Swahili: “Gaziantep”
  • Swahili: “Jimbo l aGaziantep”
  • Swahili: “Jimbo la Gaziantep”
  • Swedish: “Aintab”
  • Swedish: “Ajntap”
  • Swedish: “Antep”
  • Swedish: “Dilok”
  • Swedish: “Dîlok”
  • Swedish: “Doliche”
  • Swedish: “Gazi Antep”
  • Swedish: “Gaziantep”
  • Tajik: “Ғозиайнтоб”
  • Tajik: “Ғозиантеп”
  • Tajik: “Ғозиантоб”
  • Tajik: “Ғозиъайнтоб”
  • Talysh: “Gaziantep”
  • Tamil: “கசியன்டேப்”
  • Tatar: “Газиантеп”
  • Telugu: “గేజియన్ టెప్”
  • Thai: “กาซีอันเตป”
  • Thai: “กาซีอันเท็พ”
  • Tumbuka: “Gaziantep”
  • Turkish: “Antep”
  • Turkish: “Ayıntap”
  • Turkish: “Gazi Antep”
  • Turkish: “Gaziantep”
  • Udmurt: “Газиантеп”
  • Ukrainian: “Газіантеп”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґазіантеп”
  • Urdu: “غازی انتیپ”
  • Urdu: “غازی عینتاب”
  • Uzbek: “Gaziantep”
  • Venetian: “Gaziantep”
  • Veps: “Gaziantep”
  • Vietnamese: “Gaziantep”
  • Volapük: “Gaziantep”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gaziantep”
  • Western Armenian: “Այնթէպ”
  • Western Mari: “Газиантеп”
  • Western Panjabi: “غازی عینتاب”
  • Wu Chinese: “加济安泰普”
  • Yue Chinese: “加濟安泰普”
  • “Gaziantep”

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