Afşin district
Sign in to saveAfşin is a municipality and district of Kahramanmaraş Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,502 km2, and its population is 80,044 (2022). It is the location of the ancient town Arabissus.
Key facts
- Turkey place.area_code
- 0344
- Turkey place.type
- metro district
- Turkey place.name
- Afşin
- Turkey place.image_skyline
- Afşin01 (cropped).jpg
- Turkey place.image_map
- Kahramanmaraş location Afşin.PNG
- Turkey place.map_caption
- Map showing Afşin District in Kahramanmaraş Province
- Turkey place.province
- Kahramanmaraş
- Turkey place.leader_party
- AKP
- Turkey place.leader_name
- Koray Kiraç
- Turkey place.area_total_km2
- 1502
- Turkey place.elevation_m
- 1230
- Turkey place.population_total
- 80044
- Turkey place.population_as_of
- 2022
- Turkey place.postal_code
- 46500
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Turkey
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Kahramanmaraş Province
- Continent
- Asia
- Official language
- Turkish
- Population
- 81423
- Area
- 1502
- Elevation
- 1220
- Time zone
- time in Turkey
- Image
- Afşin - panoramio.jpg
Show 5 more facts
- urban population
- 80138
- postal code
- 46500
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
- rural population
- 72712
- inception
- 1944-09-01
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Afşin-Elbistan power stations
- Composition
- References
- External links
Afşin is a municipality and district of Kahramanmaraş Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,502 km2, and its population is 80,044 (2022). It is the location of the ancient town Arabissus.
== Afşin-Elbistan power stations ==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Afşin district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations