Baykan
| Baykan | ||||
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| Basic data | ||||
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| Province (il) : | Siirt | |||
| Coordinates : | 38 ° 10 ' N , 41 ° 47' E | |||
| Height : | 720 m | |||
| Residents : | 5,969 (2018) | |||
| Telephone code : | (+90) 484 | |||
| Postal code : | 56 460 | |||
| License plate : | 56 | |||
| Structure and administration (as of 2019) | ||||
| Structure : | 5 malls | |||
| Mayor : | Remzi Sarsılmaz ( HDP ) | |||
| Postal address : | Karşıyaka Mahallesi, Turgut Özal Blv. 212 56460 Baykan / Siirt |
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| Baykan County | ||||
| Residents : | 26,160 (2018) | |||
| Surface: | 488 km² | |||
| Population density : | 54 inhabitants per km² | |||
| Kaymakam : | Mehmet Tunç | |||
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Baykan ( Kurdish : Hewêl ) is a small town and capital of the district of the same name ( İlçe ) in the southeast Anatolian province of Siirt . The city is on the D965 trunk road, which ends in the provincial capital Siirt . The D965 is also part of the E 99 to Ziyaret , which leads from the Azerbaijani border to Şanlıurfa . Baykan is about 30 km northwest of Siirt.
The original name of the place was Koh and from 1949 Havil or Havel.
The district is located in the northwest of the province and borders the central district ( Merkez ) Siirt and the district Kurtulan in the south, the district Şirvan in the east, the province Batman in the west and the province Bitlis in the north.
The district was formed in 1938 and, in addition to the district town (22.8% of the district's population), consists of two other municipalities ( Belediye ): Atabağı (3,793) and Veyselkarani (6,246 inhabitants). There are also 30 villages ( Köy ) with an average of 338 residents. The scale of the population ranges from 793 ( Karakaya ) to 49 ( Dokuzçavuş ). The population density is slightly below the provincial value (58.0 inhabitants per km²), the urban share is 61.2%.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Türkiye Nüfusu İl ilçe Mahalle Köy Nüfusları , accessed on July 18, 2019
- ↑ TC Devlet Başbakanlık Arşivleri Genel Müdürlüğü: Osmanlı Yer Adları. Ankara 2006, p. 69
