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Biga

district and town in Çanakkale Province, Turkey
Place Town Q859621

Facts

14 properties

Identity

Instance of
town
Official website
www.biga.bel.tr[7]

Location

Country
Turkey[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 40.228°, 27.242°
Located in or next to body of water
Sea of Marmara[4]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Çanakkale Province[2]

Population and size

Area
+1354[11]
Elevation above sea level
+21[10]
Population
+94112[8]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 94,112 GeoNames 61,066 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Postal code
17000–17999[6]
More facts +4
Name in kana
ビガ[9]
Rural population
34k (34k–62k, n=21)[26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39]
Twinned administrative body
Xanthi[5]
Urban population
60k (12k–60k, n=21)[12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]
🏷️ Also known as
en Biga ar بيغا ar بِيغَا fa بیگا ja ビガ ru Бига tr Biga, Çanakkale uk Біга zh 比加 (恰納卡萊省)
🔖 Identifiers · 17
VIAF cluster ID
291327223
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n2012073077
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Biga Kaymakamlığı–IMG 5368~2.jpg ↗
Dewey Decimal Classification
2--5622
Facebook location ID
106270732745507
Freebase ID
/m/0ch458
GNS Unique Feature ID
-739378
GeoNames ID
750605
INaturalist place ID
106034
J9U entity ID
987007475193505171
Kulturenvanteri taxonomy ID
566
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1593709
Show all 17 identifiers +5
TDV Encyclopedia of Islam ID
biga--canakkale
Topic's main category
Category:Biga District
UN/LOCODE
TRBIG
WOEID
2343808
Who's on First ID
890461527

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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 110
Parium, Karabiga, Hacıköy, Akpınar, Arabaalan, Bakacaklıçiftliği, Camialan, Çeltik +102 more
Located in time zone 2
UTC+03:00, Turkey Time
Country 1
Turkey
Instance of 1
town
Located in or next to body of water 1
Sea of Marmara
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Çanakkale Province
People born here 1
Salah Reis
Topic's main category 1
Category:Biga District
Twinned administrative body 1
Xanthi
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Biga District
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Çanakkale Province
← Location of discovery 1
Polyxena sarcophagus
← Twinned administrative body 1
Xanthi
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Summary

Biga is a town[1].

Related Entities

Turkey Xanthi

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 14w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → Turkey
    Area → 1,354 square kilometre
    Coordinate location → 40.228°, 27.242°
    Official website → http://www.biga.bel.tr/
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #45396: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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