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Göksun district

district of Kahramanmaraş, southern Turkey
Place Town Q939677

Facts

18 properties

Identity

Instance of
town, municipality, district of Turkey[5][6]
Official website
www.goksun.bel.tr[10]
Native label
Göksun[15]
Official name
Göksun[14]

Location

Country
Turkey[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 38.017°, 36.500°[9]
Continent
Asia[4]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Kahramanmaraş Province[2]

Population and size

Area
+1.94, +1942[20][21]
Elevation above sea level
+1350, +1347[18][19]
Population
+55985, +18461[11][12]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 55,985 · 18,461 GeoNames 53,157 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Postal code
46600[8]
More facts +6
Different from
Göksun[17]
Name in kana
ギョクスン[16]
Official language
Turkish[7]
Replaces
Cucusos[13]
Rural population
43k (33k–48k, n=13)
Urban population
51k (4.5k–56k, n=22)[22][23]
🏷️ Also known as
en Göksun district ar كُكْسُونُ ar ككسون da Goksan de Kukusos de Göksun el Κουκουσός fa گکسون it Cucusus ja ギョクスン郡 ja ギョクスン nl Goksun pl Goksun pt Coxon pt Cucusus ro Goksun ru Гёксун zh 格克孫 zh 科库索斯 zh-hans 格克孙
🔖 Identifiers · 10
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Göksun, Provinz Kahramanmaraş.jpg ↗
Encyclopaedia of Islam (first edition) ID
SIM-2519
Freebase ID
/m/0bj7pq
GNS Unique Feature ID
11848286
GeoNames ID
8631479
INaturalist place ID
106530
Kulturenvanteri taxonomy ID
1335
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1335884
Topic's main category
Category:Göksun
Who's on First ID
890461673
📚 Sources · 1
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Located in time zoneP421
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Source
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Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 6
Gücüksu, Payamburnu, Kireç, Kömürköy, Mürselköy, Taşoluk
People born here 5
Yusuf Dikeç, Burhan Akbudak, Cem Özer, Kıraç, Merve Kenger
Instance of 3
municipality, town, district of Turkey
People who died here 3
Paul I of Constantinople, Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu, Murat Çetinkaya
Located in time zone 2
UTC+03:00, Turkey Time
Continent 1
Asia
Country 1
Turkey
Different from 1
Göksun
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Kahramanmaraş Province
Official language 1
Turkish
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Kahramanmaraş Province
← Different from 1
Göksun
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Summary

Göksun district is a town[1].

Related Entities

Turkey Yusuf Dikeç

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. 10w ago · Nehemie.strupler · 2026-08-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    GeoNames ID → 8631479
    "Removed claim: GeoNames ID: 314188"
  2. 13w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Kahramanmaraş Province
    Official website → http://www.goksun.bel.tr/
    Coordinate location → —
    Population → 55,985, 18,461
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #46950: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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