Kocaçoban

Kocaçoban
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Basic data
Province (il) :	Ağrı
District ( ilçe ) :	Diyadin
Coordinates :	39 ° 28 '  N , 43 ° 30'  E Coordinates: 39 ° 27 '53 "  N , 43 ° 29' 36"  E
Height :	2260  m
Residents :	332 (2009)
Telephone code :	(+90) 472
Postal code :	04900
License plate :	04
Structure and administration (as of 2010)
Muhtar :	Hasan Çiftçi

Kocaçoban (Kurd. Bubo ) is a village in the Diyadin district of the Turkish province of Ağrı . Kocaçoban is located in Eastern Anatolia at 2,260 m above sea level, about 20 km southwest of Diyadin.

Before it was renamed to Kocaçoban (Turkish: "Great Shepherd"), the village was called Bubo. The name was changed after 1945. The census of 1945 lists the village with its original name. The former name is also registered with the land registry.

In 1985 there lived 823 people in Kocaçoban and in 2009 the village still had 332 inhabitants.

Kocaçoban has a primary school and a health center.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Başbakanlık İstatistics Genel Müdürlüğü: 21 Ekim 1945 Genel Nüfus Sayımı. Volume 1. Hüsnütabiat Basımevi, Ankara 1948, p. 18
2. ↑ www.e-tkbm.gov.tr ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ www.yerelnet.org.tr
4. ↑ www.report.tuik.gov.tr ( Memento from December 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )