Bingöl

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Bingöl

Total population

269,560

Coordinates38.89°, 40.50°

Demographic figures from TurkStat. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Bingöl, known as Çapakçur before 1944, is a city in Turkey. It is the seat of Bingöl Province and Bingöl District, and has a population of 133,423 (2022). The city is situated in a predominantly Kurdish-speaking region of eastern Turkey and is known in Kurdish as Çewlik; it has been the subject of scholarly attention as a site of Kird/Zaza and Kurmanji Kurdish identity formation.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

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Zeki Korkmaz

Turkish association football player (born 1988)

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Muhammet Akagündüz

Turkish association football player (born 1978)

Egemen Bağış

Turkish politician

Mahmut Celâyir

Turkish-German painter (born 1951)

Cevdet Yılmaz

Vice President of Turkey

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Cemal Yavuz

Turkish attorney and statesperson (1925–2018)

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Cahit Gök

Turkish actor (born 1981)

Reha Özcan

Turkish actor (born 1965)

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Hasip Bingöl

Turkish writer (born 1981)

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Gürdal Aksoy

Kurdish writer (born 1968)

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Mehmet Hayri Durmuş

Turkish revolutionary leader (1955–1982)

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Rençber Eziz

Turkish musician of Zaza ancestry (born 1955)

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Murat Yiğiter

Turkish association football player (born 1971)

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Mehmet Sıddık Aydar

Turkish statesperson (1923–1976)

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Mehmet Ali Doğuşlu

Turkish statesperson (born 1933)

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Mehmet Rıza Ünlüçay

Turkish statesperson (born 1950)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Bingöl

• Lehchevo
  936.4 mi away
• Bazovets
  937 mi away
• Gorno Ozirovo
  938.1 mi away
• Gromshin
  938.3 mi away
• Septemvritsi
  938.6 mi away
• Gorna Bela Rechka
  939.4 mi away
• Kobiliak
  940.4 mi away
• Dolna Bela Rechka
  940.4 mi away
• Dolno Ozirovo
  940.6 mi away
• Lipen
  941.2 mi away
• Madan
  941.3 mi away
• Stoianovo
  941.3 mi away

Browse all places in Bingöl →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Bingöl

Search results from Open Library.