The largest Kurdish-majority city in Turkey and administrative center of Diyarbakir Province, on the Tigris river plateau in the country's Southeastern Anatolia Region, where it is the second-largest city. Continually inhabited since around 8,000 BCE, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, its metropolitan province had a population of 1,833,684 as of December 2024, of whom 1,164,940 lived in its built-up area.
Facts
Area (sq km) Population Estimate Year Elevation (m) Sources
1. Wikipedia, Diyarbakir
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As of December 2024, the Metropolitan Province population was 1,833,684, of whom 1,164,940 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made of the four urban districts (Bağlar, Kayapınar, Sur and Yenişehir).
Infobox, Area, Urban row
Urban 2,410 km2 (930 sq mi)
Infobox, Elevation row
675 m (2,215 ft)
Infobox coordinates
37.91°N 40.24°E
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