Urfa
Urfa is a city in Southeastern Anatolia, and the provincial capital of Şanlıurfa Province. The city is about 80 km east of the Euphrates River, and with a population of 600 thousand is smaller than nearby Gaziantep.
- Type: City with 2,140,000 residents
- Description: city in Turkey
- Also known as: “al-Rūhā”, “Alexandria”, “Antioquia no Callirhoe”, “Ar-Raha”, “Ar-Ruha”, “Barbea”, “Callirrhoe”, “Callirroa”, “Colonia Aurelia Antonia Opellia Macriana”, “Edeso”, “Er Roha”, “Justinópolis”, “Orfa”, “Orra”, “Orrhoe”, “Orroa”, “Ourfa”, “Ruha”, “Sanliurfa”, “Şanliurfa”, “SanlIurfa (stad)”, “Şanlı Urfa”, “Sanlıurfa”, “Şanlıurfa”, “Șanlıurfa”, “Sarbelius”, “Ûrfa”, “Urfeh”, “Urhai”, “Urhay”, “Urhoy”, “Έδεσσα”, “Ούρφα”, “Шанлурфа”, “שנלאורפה”, “שנליאורפה”, “أورهاي”, “ئورفا”, “ئورفە”, “اورفة”, “ڕھا”, “شانلی اورفه”, “شانلیورفا”, “शानलूर्फ़ा”, “ชานลิอูร์ฟา”, “อูร์ฟา”, “ウルファ”, “エデッサ”, and “薩穆法”
- Historically known as: “Antiochia”, “Edessa”, and “Justinianopolis”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Şanlıurfa 11 April Stadium and Balıklıgöl.
Şanlıurfa 11 April Stadium
Stadium
Şanlıurfa Ulu Mosque
Mosque
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Eyyübiye and Haliliye.
Urfa
- Categories: metropolitan municipality in Turkey, big city, and locality
- Location: Şanlıurfa Province, Southeastern Anatolia, Turkey, Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Europe
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Latitude
37.1596° or 37° 9′ 35″ north
Longitude
38.7919° or 38° 47′ 31″ east
Population
2,140,000
Elevation
528 metres (1,732 feet)
IATA airport code
SFQ
Open location code
8G9W5Q5R+RQ
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Urfa” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Shanllëurfa”
- Amharic: “Ուռհա”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Edesses”
- Arabic: “أورفة”
- Arabic: “شانلي أورفة”
- Armenian: “Անտիոքիա” (historical)
- Armenian: “Եդեսիա”
- Armenian: “Հուստինիանուպոլիս” (historical)
- Armenian: “Ուռհա”
- Armenian: “Ուրֆա”
- Asturian: “Edesa”
- Asturian: “Sanliurfa”
- Avaric: “Урфа”
- Azerbaijani: “Şanlıurfa”
- Bashkir: “Шанлыурфа”
- Basque: “Edesa”
- Basque: “Urfa”
- Belarusian: “Шанлыўрфа”
- Belarusian: “Шанлыюрфа”
- Bengali: “উরফা”
- Bengali: “লুরফা”
- Bengali: “শানলিউর্ফা”
- Bosnian: “Edesa”
- Bosnian: “Şanlıurfa”
- Breton: “Şanlıurfa”
- Bulgarian: “Шанлъурфа”
- Catalan: “Edessa” (historical)
- Catalan: “Şanlıurfa”
- Cebuano: “Şanlıurfa (kapital sa lalawigan)”
- Cebuano: “Şanlıurfa”
- Central Kurdish: “ڕحا”
- Chechen: “Шанлиурфа”
- Chinese: “尚勒乌尔法”
- Chinese: “尚勒烏爾法”
- Classical Syriac: “Urhây”
- Czech: “Şanlıurfa”
- Danish: “Şanlıurfa”
- Dimli (individual language): “Rıha”
- Dutch: “Edessa” (historical)
- Dutch: “Şanlıurfa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اورفه”
- Esperanto: “Ŝanlijurfo”
- Esperanto: “Şanlıurfa”
- Estonian: “Edesija”
- Finnish: “Şanlıurfa”
- French: “Édesse”
- French: “Şanlıurfa”
- French: “Urfa”
- Galician: “Şanlıurfa”
- Georgian: “შანლიურფა”
- German: “Şanlıurfa”
- Gilaki: “شانلياۊرفه”
- Greek: “Édessa”
- Greek: “Αντιόχεια”
- Greek: “Σανλιούρφα”
- Gujarati: “સાંલુર્ફા”
- Hausa: “Sanliurfa”
- Hebrew: “אורפה”
- Hindi: “उर्फा”
- Hindi: “उर्फ़ा”
- Hindi: “शनलीउर्फा”
- Hindi: “शानलिउर्फा”
- Hungarian: “Edessza”
- Hungarian: “Şanlıurfa”
- Indonesian: “Sanli Urfa”
- Irish: “Şanlıurfa”
- Italian: “Edessa” (historical)
- Italian: “Şanlıurfa”
- Japanese: “シャンルウルファ”
- Javanese: “Sanliurfa”
- Javanese: “Urfa”
- Kannada: “ಸ್ಯಾಂಲಿ-ಉರ್ಫಾ”
- Kazakh: “Şanlıwrfa”
- Kazakh: “Шанлыурфа”
- Kazakh: “شانلىۋرفا”
- Kinyarwanda: “Şanlıurfa”
- Kirghiz: “Шанлыурфа”
- Korean: “샨르우르파”
- Korean: “샨리우르파”
- Kotava: “Şanlıurfa”
- Kurdish: “Riha”
- Kurdish: “Riha”
- Kurdish: “رها”
- Latin: “Edessa”
- Latvian: “Šanliurfa”
- Lithuanian: “Urfa”
- Macedonian: “Шанлаурфа”
- Malay: “Sanliurfa”
- Malay: “Şanlıurfa”
- Marathi: “सांलुर्फा”
- Mazanderani: “شانلیاورفه”
- Middle Armenian: “Urha”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Şanlıurfa”
- Minangkabau: “Şanlıurfa”
- Moksha: “Шанлыурфа”
- Nauru: “Şanlıurfa”
- Northern Luri: “شانلیاورفه”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Şanlıurfa”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Şanlıurfa”
- Norwegian: “Şanlıurfa”
- Old Turkish: “Urfa”
- Oromo: “Sanliurfa”
- Ossetian: “Шанлыурфæ”
- Panjabi: “ਸ਼ਾਨਲੀਉਰਫਾ”
- Persian: “شانلی اورفا”
- Persian: “شانلیاورفه”
- Polish: “Edessa” (historical)
- Polish: “Şanlıurfa”
- Portuguese: “Şanlıurfa”
- Portuguese: “Xanleurfa”
- Pushto: “شانلي اورفا”
- Pushto: “شانلي اورفه”
- Romanian: “Şanlıurfa”
- Russian: “Шанлыурфа”
- Russian: “Эдесса”
- Scots: “Şanlıurfa”
- Serbian: “Šanlijurfa”
- Serbian: “Шанлијурфа”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Šanlijurfa”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Şanlıurfa”
- Sinhala: “සැන්ලියුර්ෆා”
- Slovak: “Şanlıurfa”
- Slovenian: “Şanlıurfa”
- Somali: “Sanliurfa”
- South Azerbaijani: “شانلیاورفا”
- Spanish: “Sanliurfa”
- Spanish: “Şanlıurfa”
- Spanish: “Edesa” (historical)
- Swahili: “Sanliurfa”
- Swahili: “Şanlıurfa”
- Swedish: “Edessa” (historical)
- Swedish: “Şanlıurfa”
- Tajik: “Шанлиурфа”
- Tajik: “Шанлыурфа”
- Talysh: “Šanlyurfa”
- Tamil: “ஷன்லியூர்ப”
- Tatar: “Шанлыурфа”
- Telugu: “శాన్లియుర్ఫా”
- Thai: “ชันลืออูร์ฟา”
- Turkish: “Şanlıurfa”
- Turkmen: “Urfa”
- Udmurt: “Шанлыурфа”
- Ukrainian: “Шанлиурфа”
- Upper Sorbian: “Şanlıurfa”
- Urdu: “شانلی اورفا”
- Urdu: “شانلی اورفہ”
- Uzbek: “Shanliurfa”
- Venetian: “Şanlıurfa”
- Vietnamese: “Şanlıurfa”
- Vietnamese: “Urfa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Şanlıurfa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Urfa”
- Welsh: “Şanlıurfa”
- Western Armenian: “Եդեսիա” (historical)
- Western Armenian: “Ուռհա”
- Western Armenian: “Ուրֆա”
- Western Mari: “Шанлыурфа”
- Western Panjabi: “شانلی اورفہ”
- Wu Chinese: “尚勒乌尔法”
- Yue Chinese: “烏爾法”
- “Şanlıurfa”
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