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Kilis

Kilis is a city in southernmost , near the border with Syria, and the administrative centre of and Kilis District. Its population is 112,187. On 6 February 2023 Kilis was badly affected by the twin Turkey-Syria earthquakes.
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  • Type: City with 131,000 residents
  • Description: central district and city in Kilis Province, Turkey
  • Also known as: “Kilis City”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Öncüpınar and Tahtalı.

Suburb
, historically Tibil, is a neighbourhood and village of the city Kilis, Kilis District, , . It lies south of the city of Kilis, and north of the Syrian town of .

Village
is a village in the Kilis District, , . The village had a population of 144 in 2022.

Kilis

Latitude
36.7166° or 36° 42′ 60″ north
Longitude
37.1146° or 37° 6′ 53″ east
Population
131,000
Elevation
660 metres (2,165 feet)
United Nations Location Code
TR KIL
Open location code
8G8VP487+JR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26487717
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
307864
Wiki­data ID
Q206881
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Kilis” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كلز”
  • Arabic: “كِلِّزُ”
  • Arabic: “كلس”
  • Armenian: “Քիլիս”
  • Asturian: “Kilis (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Kilis”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kilis”
  • Basque: “Kilis”
  • Bengali: “কিলিস”
  • Bulgarian: “Килис”
  • Catalan: “Kilis”
  • Catalan: “Killiz”
  • Cebuano: “Kilis”
  • Central Kurdish: “کلیس”
  • Chechen: “Килис”
  • Chinese: “Kilis”
  • Chinese: “基利斯”
  • Czech: “Kilis”
  • Danish: “Kilis”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kılis”
  • Dutch: “Kilis”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كلس”
  • Esperanto: “Kilis”
  • Esperanto: “Kilita”
  • Finnish: “Kilis”
  • French: “Kilis”
  • French: “Ravendel”
  • Gagauz: “Kilis”
  • Georgian: “ქილისი”
  • German: “Kilis”
  • Gilaki: “کيليس”
  • Greek: “Κιλίς”
  • Gujarati: “કિલીસ”
  • Hindi: “किल्लीस”
  • Hungarian: “Kilis”
  • Indonesian: “Kilis”
  • Irish: “Kilis”
  • Italian: “Kilis”
  • Japanese: “キリス”
  • Kannada: “ಕೀಲಿಸ್”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Kilis”
  • Korean: “킬리스”
  • Kurdish: “Kilîs”
  • Kurdish: “کلیس”
  • Latvian: “Kilisa”
  • Lithuanian: “Kilisas”
  • Malay: “Kilis”
  • Marathi: “किलीस”
  • Mazanderani: “کیلیس”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kilis”
  • Minangkabau: “Kilis”
  • Moksha: “Килис”
  • Nauru: “Kilis”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kilis”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kilis”
  • Norwegian: “Kilis”
  • Ossetian: “Килис”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਿਲਿਸ”
  • Persian: “کیلیس”
  • Polish: “Kilis”
  • Portuguese: “Ciliza”
  • Portuguese: “Kilis”
  • Portuguese: “Quilisse”
  • Romanian: “Kilis”
  • Russian: “Килис”
  • Scots: “Kilis”
  • Serbian: “Килис”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kilis”
  • Sinhala: “කිලිස්”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کیلیس”
  • Spanish: “Kilis”
  • Swahili: “Jimbo la Kilis”
  • Swahili: “Kilis”
  • Swedish: “Kilis”
  • Tajik: “Килис”
  • Talysh: “Kilis”
  • Tamil: “கிளிஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Килис”
  • Telugu: “కిలిజ్”
  • Thai: “คีลิส”
  • Turkish: “Kilis Merkez”
  • Turkish: “Kilis”
  • Udmurt: “Килис”
  • Ukrainian: “Кіліс”
  • Urdu: “کیلیس”
  • Venetian: “Kilis”
  • Vietnamese: “Kilis”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kilis”
  • Western Armenian: “Քիլիս”
  • Western Mari: “Килис”
  • Western Panjabi: “کیلس”
  • “Kilis”

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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 Wikipedia page “Kilis”. Photo: Bdell555, Public domain.