İskenderun

Summary

İskenderun is a city^[1]. İskenderun draws 178 Wikipedia views per month (city category, ranking #573 of 5,534).^[2]

Key Facts

• İskenderun is located in Hatay Province^[3].
• İskenderun is in the country of Turkey^[4].
• İskenderun is on the body of water Gulf of İskenderun^[5].
• İskenderun's image is recorded as City View of Iskenderun Turkey - panoramio.jpg^[6].
• İskenderun's instance of is recorded as city^[7].
• İskenderun's instance of is recorded as town^[8].
• İskenderun's shares border with is recorded as Arsuz^[9].
• İskenderun's shares border with is recorded as Belen^[10].
• İskenderun's shares border with is recorded as Kırıkhan^[11].
• İskenderun's shares border with is recorded as Hassa^[12].
• İskenderun's shares border with is recorded as Payas^[13].
• Alexander the Great is named after İskenderun^[14].
• İskenderun's twinned administrative body is recorded as Lankaran^[15].
• İskenderun's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 150161271^[16].
• İskenderun's GND ID is recorded as 4457676-6^[17].
• İskenderun's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n85137291^[18].
• İskenderun's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 13602399t^[19].
• İskenderun's IdRef ID is recorded as 190206594^[20].
• İskenderun's postal code is recorded as 31^[21].
• İskenderun's Commons category is recorded as İskenderun^[22].
• İskenderun's OpenStreetMap relation ID is recorded as 1240891^[23].
• İskenderun's located in time zone is recorded as UTC+03:00^[24].
• İskenderun's located in time zone is recorded as time in Turkey^[25].
• İskenderun's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 36.587222222222, 'lon': 36.173333333333}^[26].
• İskenderun's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01mt35^[27].

Body

Geography

İskenderun is in the country of Turkey^[4]. İskenderun is located in Hatay Province^[3]. İskenderun is on the body of water Gulf of İskenderun^[5].

Physical Characteristics

İskenderun's area is recorded as {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+247'}^[28]. İskenderun's elevation above sea level is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+4'}^[29]. Population counts include {'amount': '+184833'}^[30], {'amount': '+248335'}^[31], {'amount': '+251682'}^[32], {'amount': '+250964'}^[33], and {'amount': '+246207'}^[34].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include city^[7] and town^[8].

History and Context

Alexander the Great is named after İskenderun^[14].

Cultural Significance

Things named for İskenderun include Gulf of İskenderun^[35], a gulf^[36], in Turkey^[37].

Why It Matters

İskenderun draws 178 Wikipedia views per month (city category, ranking #573 of 5,534).^[2] İskenderun has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[38] İskenderun is known by 42 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[39]

Entities named for İskenderun include Gulf of İskenderun^[35], a gulf^[36], in Turkey^[37].