Başkale district
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thumb|300px|right| Ruins of the Armenian Saint Bartholomew Monastery in Başkale. It was in use by local [[Armenians until the Armenian genocide]]
Key facts
- Turkey place.type
- metro district
- Turkey place.name
- Başkale
- Turkey place.image_map
- Van location Başkale.PNG
- Turkey place.map_caption
- Map showing Başkale District in Van Province
- Turkey place.province
- Van
- Turkey place.area_total_km2
- 2727
- Turkey place.population_total
- 44168
- Turkey place.population_as_of
- 2022
- Turkey place.postal_code
- 65600
- Turkey place.area_code
- 0432
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Official name
- Başkale
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Van Province
- Continent
- Asia
- Official language
- Turkish
- Population
- 52544
- Area
- 2727
- Elevation
- 2350
- Time zone
- time in Turkey
- Official website
- www.baskale.gov.tr
- Image
- Van location Başkale.PNG
- Licence plate code
- 65
Show 6 more facts
- topic's main category
- Category:Başkale
- urban population
- 47947
- rural population
- 35370
- native label
- Başkale
- postal code
- 65600
- P8168
- Lucanus tetraodon
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Climate
- Demographics
- Composition
- References
- Further reading
thumb|300px|right| Ruins of the Armenian Saint Bartholomew Monastery in Başkale. It was in use by local [[Armenians until the Armenian genocide]]
Başkale (, ) is a municipality and district of Van Province, Turkey. Its area is 2,727 km2, and its population is 44,168 (2022). The municipality Başkale was established in 1937. In the local elections of March 2019 Erkan Acar from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) was elected mayor.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Başkale district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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