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Key facts
- Country
- Turkey
- Province
- Diyarbakır
- Area
- 1,252 km (483 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 810 m (2,660 ft)
- Population 2022
- 86,161
- Density
- 68.82/km (178.2/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+3 ( TRT )
- Area code
- 0412
- Website
- www .silvan .bel .tr
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Official name
- Silvan
- Country
- Turkey
- Located in
- Diyarbakır Province
- Continent
- Asia
- Population
- 86672
- Time zone
- time in Turkey
- Capital of
- Diyar Bakr
- Official website
- www.silvan.bel.tr
- Image
- Farqîn.jpg
- Licence plate code
- 21
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- postal code
- 21640
- topic's main category
- Category:Silvan, Diyarbakır
- Commons category
- Silvan, Diyarbakır
- native label
- Silvan
- name in kana
- シルワーン
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Encyclopedic overview
Silvan (Kurdish: Farqîn; Ottoman Turkish: ميا فارقين, romanized: Meyafarikîn, Armenian: Սիլվան, romanized: Silvan) is a municipality and district of Diyarbakır Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,252 km, and its population is 86,161 (2022). It is populated by Kurds.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Silvan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.