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Yüksekova district

district of Hakkari, southeastern Turkey
City Q2176882

Facts

16 properties

Identity

Instance of
city, town, district of Turkey[5][6]
Official website
www.yuksekova.bel.tr[13]

Location

Country
Turkey[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 37.567°, 44.283°
Continent
Asia[4]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Hakkâri Province[2]

Population and size

Area
+2385, +2547[18][19]
Elevation above sea level
+1950, +1873[16][17]
Population
+119760[14]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 119,760 GeoNames 116,327 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗

Codes

Postal code
30300[12]
More facts +6
Capital
Yüksekova[7]
Contains the administrative territorial entity
Yüksekova, Esendere, Büyükçiftlik[9][10][11]
Different from
Yüksekova[15]
Official language
Turkish[8]
Rural population
47k (45k–48k, n=3)[23][24][25]
Urban population
72k (68k–72k, n=3)[20][21][22]
🏷️ Also known as
en Yüksekova district ar یكسيكوة ar يُكْسِيكُوَة de Yüksekova el Γιουκσέκοβα fa یوک‌سکوا fr Yuksekova hu Yüksekova pl Yuksekova ru Юксекова tr Gevar tr Yüksekova ilçesi zh 于克塞科瓦 zh-hant 於克塞科瓦
🔖 Identifiers · 9
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Yüksekova 01.JPG ↗
Freebase ID
/m/0bk0n_
GeoNames ID
7733232
INaturalist place ID
106440
Kulturenvanteri taxonomy ID
1364
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1381573
SNARC ID
1532
Topic's main category
Category:Yüksekova
UN/LOCODE
TRYUK

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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 63
Dağlıca, Esendere, Dedeler, Akçalı, Akpınar, Hakkari Yüksekova Airport, Kısıklı, Köprücük +55 more
Contains the administrative territorial entity 3
Esendere, Büyükçiftlik, Yüksekova
Instance of 3
city, town, district of Turkey
Located in time zone 2
UTC+03:00, Turkey Time
People born here 2
Yusuf Fırat Kaplan, Savaş Buldan
Capital 1
Yüksekova
Continent 1
Asia
Country 1
Turkey
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Hakkâri Province
Official language 1
Turkish
SNARC ID 1
1532
← Capital of 1
Yüksekova
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Hakkâri Province
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Summary

Yüksekova district is a city[1].

Related Entities

city Turkey Yüksekova

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . harita.gov.tr. harita.gov.tr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . harita.gov.tr. harita.gov.tr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . statoids.com. statoids.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . harita.gov.tr. harita.gov.tr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . harita.gov.tr. harita.gov.tr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [2] ↑ . harita.gov.tr. harita.gov.tr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . haritatr.com. haritatr.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . harita.gov.tr. harita.gov.tr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 12w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Freebase ID → /m/0bk0n_
    GeoNames ID → 7733232
    Capital → Yüksekova
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Hakkâri Province
    + 22 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #48043: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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