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Saray

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Saray

Total population

21,712

Coordinates38.65°, 44.17°

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City facts

Overview

Saray is a municipality and district of Van Province, Turkey. Its area is 872 km2, and its population is 19,471 (2022). The mayor elected in 2019 was Caziye Duman from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). She was arrested along with 14 others, many of them from the HDP, on terrorism charges in November 2019 and replaced by a trustee. Security officials accused them of having "been engaged in activities within the terrorist organization's women's field structure."

History & geography

Geography

Latitude
38.6494
Longitude
44.1696
Water area
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Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Climate

Air quality

Walkability

Amenities nearby

Wildlife & biodiversity

Earthquake history

Photos

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Notable people from here

Geography & sun

Avg solar (kWh/m²/day)
4.82
Annual solar (kWh/m²)
1,760

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

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Public attention

Wikipedia views (last 30 days)
104
Avg daily Wikipedia views
3
Attention level
Obscure

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Saray

Search results from Open Library.

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Events

Sources

  • • Wikipedia
  • • Wikidata
  • • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
  • • Wikipedia Pageviews API
  • • Open Library
  • • Wikidata SPARQL (CC0) — population, area, elevation, inception, head of government, Commons image