Şehitkâmil district
Sign in to saveŞehitkamil is a municipality and district of Gaziantep Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,290 km2, and its population is 857,167 (2022). It covers the northern part of the agglomeration of Gaziantep and the adjacent countryside. It contains the old city, including Gaziantep Castle, as well as the University of Gaziantep.
Key facts
- Turkey place.type
- metro district
- Turkey place.name
- Şehitkamil
- Turkey place.image_skyline
- File:Yeşilce - Gaziantep 01.jpg
- Turkey place.image_caption
- Yeşilce, Şehitkamil, Gaziantep
- Turkey place.image_map
- Gaziantep location Şehitkamil.png
- Turkey place.map_caption
- Map showing Şehitkamil District in Gaziantep Province
- Turkey place.province
- Gaziantep
- Turkey place.leader_party
- AKP
- Turkey place.leader_name
- Umut Yılmaz
- Turkey place.area_total_km2
- 1290
- Turkey place.population_total
- 857167
- Turkey place.population_as_of
- 2022
- Turkey place.area_code
- 0342
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Turkey
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Gaziantep Subregion
- Continent
- Asia
- Official language
- Turkish
- Population
- 774179
- Area
- 1290
- Elevation
- 833
- Time zone
- UTC+03:00
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- rural population
- 33699
- urban population
- 839553
- Commons category
- Şehitkamil
- inception
- 1987-06-27
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Composition
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- References
Şehitkamil is a municipality and district of Gaziantep Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,290 km2, and its population is 857,167 (2022). It covers the northern part of the agglomeration of Gaziantep and the adjacent countryside. It contains the old city, including Gaziantep Castle, as well as the University of Gaziantep.
On 20 August 2012, a bomb attack occurred, killing at least eight and wounding 64 people.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Şehitkâmil district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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