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Karkamış district

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Karkamış, formerly Carablus, is a municipality and district of Gaziantep Province, Turkey. Its area is 298 km2, and its population is 9,379 (2022). It is next to the site of ancient Carchemish.

Key facts

Turkey place.type
metro district
Turkey place.name
Karkamış
Turkey place.image_skyline
File:Euphrates from The Mound of Carchemish. Accidents of an antiquary's life. 1910.jpg
Turkey place.image_caption
Euphrates River from Karkamış, 1910
Turkey place.image_map
Gaziantep location Karkamış.png
Turkey place.map_caption
Map showing Karkamış District in Gaziantep Province
Turkey place.pushpin_relief
1
Turkey place.province
Gaziantep
Turkey place.leader_party
AK Party
Turkey place.leader_name
Mustafa Güzel
Turkey place.area_total_km2
298
Turkey place.population_total
9379
Turkey place.population_as_of
2022
Turkey place.postal_code
27880
Turkey place.area_code
0342

via Wikipedia infobox

Wikidata facts

Country
Turkey
Continent
Asia
Official language
Turkish
Population
10436
Area
298
Elevation
358
Time zone
UTC+03:00
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urban population
9616
rural population
7553
Commons category
Karkamış
name in kana
カルカミス
inception
1990-05-20
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Encyclopedic overview

7 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Geography
  • Composition
  • Demographics
  • Archeology
  • Border Crossing
  • References

Karkamış, formerly Carablus, is a municipality and district of Gaziantep Province, Turkey. Its area is 298 km2, and its population is 9,379 (2022). It is next to the site of ancient Carchemish.

It is a border checkpoint on the road to Jarabulus in Syria.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Karkamış district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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