Oğuzeli district
Sign in to saveOğuzeli is a municipality and district of Gaziantep Province, Turkey. Its area is 689 km2, and its population is 36 644 (2025). It is the 6th most populated district of Gaziantep, making it one of the smaller and rural districts alongside Araban, Karkamış, Nurdağı, Yavuzeli. Nevertheless, it is the closest district to the two urban districts of Şehitkamil and Şahinbey that make up Gaziantep City, with its municipal center located just Southeast of the city and the district bordering Hasan Kalyoncu University located at the edge of Şahinbey. As a suburban district, large areas of the distr
Key facts
- Turkey place.type
- metro district
- Turkey place.name
- Oğuzeli
- Turkey place.image_map
- Gaziantep location Oğuzeli.png
- Turkey place.map_caption
- Map showing Oğuzeli District in Gaziantep Province
- Turkey place.province
- Gaziantep
- Turkey place.leader_party
- YRP
- Turkey place.leader_name
- Bekir Öztekin
- Turkey place.area_total_km2
- 689
- Turkey place.population_total
- 36,644
- Turkey place.population_as_of
- 2025
- Turkey place.postal_code
- 27650
- Turkey place.area_code
- 0342
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Gaziantep Province
- Continent
- Asia
- Official language
- Turkish
- Population
- 32653
- Area
- 689
- Elevation
- 679
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
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- postal code
- 27700
- Commons category
- Oğuzeli
- urban population
- 33044
- rural population
- 31930
- inception
- 1946-04-01
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Oğuzeli is a municipality and district of Gaziantep Province, Turkey. Its area is 689 km2, and its population is 36 644 (2025). It is the 6th most populated district of Gaziantep, making it one of the smaller and rural districts alongside Araban, Karkamış, Nurdağı, Yavuzeli. Nevertheless, it is the closest district to the two urban districts of Şehitkamil and Şahinbey that make up Gaziantep City, with its municipal center located just Southeast of the city and the district bordering Hasan Kalyoncu University located at the edge of Şahinbey. As a suburban district, large areas of the district are made of agricultural farms, most particularly used for growing pistachios.
The town is historically inhabited by Turkmens of the Barak tribe and Abdals of the Maya Sekenler tribe.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Oğuzeli district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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