What is the population of Kızıltepe, Mardin?

Kızıltepe has a population of approximately 263,938 according to the latest available open data.

Where is Kızıltepe, Mardin located?

Kızıltepe is located in Mardin, Türkiye, at approximate coordinates 37.1917°, 40.5848°.

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Kızıltepe

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Kızıltepe

Total population

263,938

Elevation498 m

Land area1416.37 km²

Coordinates37.19°, 40.58°

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City facts

Elevation

498 m

Area

1416.37 km²

Official website

www.kiziltepe.bel.tr

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Overview

Kızıltepe is a municipality and district of Mardin Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,236 km2, and its population is 267,151 (2022). It is mainly populated by Kurds of the Kîkan Kurdish tribe. Kızıltepe is situated in Mardin Province within the broader Kurdish-majority region of southeastern Turkey. Demographic research has identified the Mardin region as having a predominantly Kurdish-speaking population, with Kurmanji as the principal spoken language. Kızıltepe is predominantly inhabited by Kurds and is situated within Mardin Province, which demographic studies have consistently identified as a Kurdish-majority province with high concentrations of Kurmanji speakers.

History & geography

History

The town has a historic 13th century great Friday mosque built by the Artuqids. On 1 July 1915, during the 1915 genocide in Diyarbekir, there was a massacre in the village where its Christian population, the Assyrians were murdered by militia and Kurds. About seventy women were raped in the church, then put to death. Men, women, and children were killed indiscriminately and many victims were decapitated. After the massacre, Kurdish women stabbed any survivors to death. Rafael de Nogales visited weeks later and found "corpses barely covered with heaps of stone from which emerged here and there a bloody tress or an arm or leg gnawed on by hyenas". In the late 1980s there existed a refugee camp for Kurds who fled persecution by Saddam Hussein. It was also the scene of clashes between protesting Kurds and Turkish riot police in 2006. In Kiziltepe have been imposed curfews in the past. The highest temperature ever recorded in Kızıltepe is 49.6 °C (121.28 °F) on 25 July 2025.

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