Kelkit
| Kelkit | ||||
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| Basic data | ||||
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| Province (il) : | Gümüşhane | |||
| Coordinates : | 40 ° 8 ′ N , 39 ° 26 ′ E | |||
| Height : | 1408 m | |||
| Residents : | 16,194 (2018) | |||
| Telephone code : | (+90) 456 | |||
| Postal code : | 29 600 | |||
| License plate : | 29 | |||
| Structure and administration (as of 2019) | ||||
| Structure : | 9 Mahalle | |||
| Mayor : | Aziz Nas ( ACP ) | |||
| Kelkit district | ||||
| Residents : | 47,891 (2018) | |||
| Surface: | 1,571 km² | |||
| Population density : | 30 inhabitants per km² | |||
| Kaymakam : | Aziz Onur Aydın | |||
| Website (Kaymakam): | ||||
Kelkit is a town and at the same time the administrative center of the district of the same name in the province of Gümüşhane in northeastern Turkey in the Black Sea region . The name most likely comes from Armenian and is composed of the original words Kail and Kjed , which means "Wolf River" and is the name of the river Kelkit Çayı, which flows past the city . The city is about 37 km (60 km by road) south of the provincial capital Gümüşhane .
district
The district is the southernmost in the province, has the second largest area after the central district and also the second largest population. It borders in the west on the Şiran district , in the north on the central district ( Merkez ) Gümüşhane and in the northeast on the district Köse . In the south the province of Erzincan forms the border and in the southeast the province of Bayburt .
In addition to the district town (around a third of the district's population), the district has five other municipalities ( Belediye ):
- Gümüşgöze (4,366)
- Öbektaş (2,923)
- Ünlüpınar (2,647)
- Söğütlü (2,143)
- Deredolu (2,001 pop.)
There are also 77 villages ( Köy ) with an average of 229 residents. Sadak is the largest village (population 1,103). The total population of all villages is 17,617. The village Karaçayır is a neighborhood of the district town since 2018th The smallest village in the province also exists in the district: Yolçatı (8 inhabitants).
Personalities
- Aydın Doğan (* 1936), entrepreneur
- Onurcan Güler (* 1995), football player
- Dilek Kolat (* 1967), Senator for Health, Nursing and Equality, and Mayor of Berlin
- Özcan Mutlu (* 1968), member of the 18th German Bundestag
- Mehmet Nas (* 1979), football player
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Türkiye Nüfusu İl ilçe Mahalle Köy Nüfusları , accessed on June 18, 2019
- ↑ distance.to is online distance calculator
- ↑ Karayolları Genel Müdürlüğü General Directorate of Highways (Turkish)
