Mardin

Mardin is a city in , with a population of 194,000 in 2023, and industries based on agriculture. It has an attractive old town, with decorated stone buildings cascading down the sides of a valley, and views over the Mesopotamian plains below.
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  • Type: City with 133,000 residents
  • Description: city in Turkey
  • Also known as: “Marde”, “Maride”, and “Moha”
Photo: Salih.melikoglu, CC BY-SA 2.5.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mardin Museum and Mardin Castle.

Museum
Photo: Nevit, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a museum in Mardin, …

Castle
Photo: MSinjari, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a 3,000 year old defensive fortification in the city of Mardin, Turkey. It is known as the Eagle's Nest. The castle has been used as a military base as part of a NATO agreement and hosts a radar station due to its position 1,000 meters above the Mesopotamian plain.

Mosque
Photo: Ibosimsek02, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yalım and Eryeri.

Suburb
is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of , , . Its population is 25,803. Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town. It is populated by Kurds of the Daşî and Meşkinan tribes.

Village
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is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of , in . The village is populated by Kurds of non-tribal affiliation and had a population of 1,341 in 2021.

Village
is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of , in . The village had a population of 172 in 2021.

Mardin

Latitude
37.3133° or 37° 18′ 48″ north
Longitude
40.7354° or 40° 44′ 8″ east
Population
133,000
Elevation
1,056 metres (3,465 feet)
IATA airport code
MQM
United Nations Location Code
TR MDN
Open location code
8H928P7P+85
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26487735
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
304797
Wiki­data ID
Q188022
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Mardin” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ماردين”
  • Arabic: “مردين”
  • Armenian: “Մարդին”
  • Asturian: “Mardin (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Mardin”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mardin”
  • Basque: “Mardin”
  • Belarusian: “Мардзін”
  • Bengali: “মারদিন”
  • Breton: “Mardin”
  • Bulgarian: “Мардин”
  • Catalan: “Katxiari”
  • Catalan: “Mardin”
  • Catalan: “Maride”
  • Cebuano: “Mardin”
  • Central Kurdish: “ماردین”
  • Central Kurdish: “مێردین”
  • Chechen: “Мардин”
  • Chinese: “Mardin”
  • Chinese: “馬爾丁”
  • Chinese: “马尔丁”
  • Czech: “Mardin”
  • Danish: “Mardin”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Mardin”
  • Dutch: “Mardin”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ماردين”
  • Esperanto: “Mardin”
  • Finnish: “Mardin”
  • French: “Mardin”
  • French: “Mêrdin”
  • French: “Mêrdîn”
  • Gagauz: “Mardin”
  • Galician: “Mardin”
  • Georgian: “მარდინი”
  • German: “Mardin”
  • Gilaki: “ماردين”
  • Greek: “Μαρντίν”
  • Gujarati: “માર્ડીન”
  • Hebrew: “מרדין”
  • Hindi: “मारदीन”
  • Hindi: “मार्डिन”
  • Hungarian: “Mardin”
  • Indonesian: “Mardin”
  • Irish: “Mardin”
  • Italian: “Mardin”
  • Japanese: “マルディン”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Mardin”
  • Kannada: “ಮಾರ್ಡಿನ್”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Mardin”
  • Korean: “마르딘”
  • Kurdish: “Mardin”
  • Kurdish: “Mardîn”
  • Kurdish: “Merdîn”
  • Kurdish: “Mêrdin”
  • Kurdish: “Mêrdîn”
  • Kurdish: “Mêrdînê”
  • Kurdish: “مێردین”
  • Latvian: “Mardina”
  • Lithuanian: “Mardinas”
  • Macedonian: “Мардин”
  • Malay: “Mardin”
  • Maltese: “Mardin”
  • Marathi: “मार्डीन”
  • Mazanderani: “ماردین”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Mardin”
  • Minangkabau: “Mardin”
  • Moksha: “Мардин”
  • Nauru: “Mardin”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mardin”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mardin”
  • Norwegian: “Mardin”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܡܪܕܐ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܡܪܕܝܢ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܡܰܪܕܺܝܢ”
  • Ossetian: “Мардин”
  • Persian: “ماردین”
  • Polish: “Mardin”
  • Portuguese: “Izala”
  • Portuguese: “Katxiari”
  • Portuguese: “Mardim”
  • Portuguese: “Mardin”
  • Portuguese: “Márida”
  • Portuguese: “Maride”
  • Portuguese: “Mêrdîn”
  • Portuguese: “Moha”
  • Romanian: “Mardin”
  • Russian: “Мардин”
  • Scots: “Mardin”
  • Serbian: “Мардин”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mardin”
  • Silesian: “Mardin”
  • Sinhala: “මර්දින්”
  • Slovak: “Mardin”
  • Slovenian: “Mardin”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ماردین”
  • Spanish: “Mardin”
  • Swahili: “Jimbo la Mardin”
  • Swahili: “Mardin”
  • Swedish: “Mardin”
  • Swedish: “Merdin”
  • Swedish: “Mêrdîn”
  • Tajik: “Мардин”
  • Talysh: “Mardin”
  • Tamil: “மார்டின்”
  • Telugu: “మార్డన్”
  • Thai: “มาร์ดิน”
  • Turkish: “Mardin”
  • Udmurt: “Мардин”
  • Ukrainian: “Мардін”
  • Urdu: “ماردین”
  • Venetian: “Mardin”
  • Vietnamese: “Mardin”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mardin”
  • Western Armenian: “Մարտին”
  • Western Mari: “Мардин”
  • Western Panjabi: “ماردن”
  • Western Panjabi: “ماردين”
  • Wu Chinese: “马尔丁”
  • “Mardin”

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