Kırıkhan
Sign in to saveKırıkhan is a municipality and district of Hatay Province, Turkey. Its area is 715 km2, and its population is 121,028 (2022). The town stands at the intersection of the route between İskenderun and Aleppo, and the major north-south road between Antakya and Kahramanmaraş. As of 2014, over 35,000 Syrians live in Kırıkhan, an increase from the May 2013 number of 30,000.
Key facts
- Turkey place.type
- metro district
- Turkey place.name
- Kırıkhan
- Turkey place.image_map
- Hatay location Kırıkhan.png
- Turkey place.map_caption
- Map showing Kırıkhan District in Hatay Province
- Turkey place.province
- Hatay
- Turkey place.leader_party
- AKP
- Turkey place.leader_name
- Ömer Erdal Çelik
- Turkey place.area_total_km2
- 715
- Turkey place.elevation_m
- 151
- Turkey place.population_total
- 121028
- Turkey place.population_as_of
- 2022
- Turkey place.postal_code
- 31440
- Turkey place.area_code
- 0326
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Official name
- Kırıkhan
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon
- Population
- 115196
- Area
- 588
- Elevation
- 178
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
- Shares border with
- Afrin
- Official website
- www.kirikhan.bel.tr
- Image
- Kırıkhan Otogar - panoramio.jpg
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- urban population
- 119854
- native label
- Kırıkhan
- rural population
- 34526
- Commons category
- Kırıkhan
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Name
- History
- Agriculture
- Climate
- Composition
- Notable people
- References
Kırıkhan is a municipality and district of Hatay Province, Turkey. Its area is 715 km2, and its population is 121,028 (2022). The town stands at the intersection of the route between İskenderun and Aleppo, and the major north-south road between Antakya and Kahramanmaraş. As of 2014, over 35,000 Syrians live in Kırıkhan, an increase from the May 2013 number of 30,000.
The district’s major religious and touristic site is the Beyazid-i Bestami Külliyesi (Complex) on Darb-ı Sak Castle at Alabeyli village, which contains the tomb or maqam of Bayazid Bastami. The ruined medieval Crusader castle Trapessac is situated near Kırıkhan.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kırıkhan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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