Karakoçan
Sign in to saveKarakoçan ( Tepe, , ) is a town of Elazığ Province in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. It is the seat of Karakoçan District. It is populated by Kurds and had a population of 14,811 in 2022.
Key facts
- Turkey place.type
- municipality
- Turkey place.name
- Karakoçan
- Turkey place.image_skyline
- Karakocan.jpg
- Turkey place.province
- Elazığ
- Turkey place.district
- Karakoçan
- Turkey place.leader_party
- DEM Party
- Turkey place.leader_name
- Cafer Oğur
- Turkey place.population_total
- 14811
- Turkey place.population_as_of
- 2021
- Turkey place.blank1_name
- Climate
- Turkey place.blank1_info
- Csa
- Turkey place.postal_code
- 23600
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Elazığ Province
- Population
- 28702
- Time zone
- time in Turkey
- Official website
- www.karakocan.bel.tr
- Image
- Karakocan.jpg
- Dialing code
- 0424
Show 5 more facts
- described by source
- Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
- Commons category
- Karakoçan
- postal code
- 23600
- urban population
- 14811
- rural population
- 13625
via Wikidata · CC0
~1 min read
Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Climate
- References
- External links
Karakoçan ( Tepe, , ) is a town of Elazığ Province in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. It is the seat of Karakoçan District. It is populated by Kurds and had a population of 14,811 in 2022.
The mayor is Cafer Oğur (DEM Party). Karakoçan is located on a stony plain that is watered by a stream that flows to the Peri Su. It is the successor of the ancient and medieval town of Bağın, located on the Peri Su to the northwest.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Karakoçan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations