Şemdinli District is a district in the

Hakkâri Province Hakkâri Province (, ; ), is a province in the southeast of Turkey. The administrative centre is the city of Hakkâri. Its area is 7,095 km2, and its population is 287,625 (2023). The current Governor is Ali Çelik. The province encompasses ...

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. The district had a population of 44,742 in 2023 with the town of

Şemdinli Şemdinli (, or ) is a town located in the Şemdinli District of Hakkari Province in Turkey and had a population of 18,220 in 2023. The current mayor is Tahir Saklı from the Justice and Development Party (AKP), elected in 2019. The town is ...

as its seat. Its area is 1,209 km². The district was established in 1936. Part of the district was separated to form Derecik District in 2018. The current district governor (''

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)'' is Batuhan Taşgın.

Settlements

There is one

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in Şemdinli District: *

The district has twenty-two villages of which three are unpopulated: #

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(, ) # Altınsu () # Ayranlı () # Bağlar () # Beyyurdu () # Boğazköy () # Bozyamaç () # Çalışkanlar () #

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() # Çevre () #

Çubuklu Çubuklu is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Beykoz, Istanbul Province, Turkey. Its population is 20,698 (2022). It is on the Anatolian side of the Bosphorus. It was called Katangion (Κατάγγιον in Greek language, Greek ...

() # Günyazı () # Kayalar () # Konur () # Korgan () # Meşelik () # Öveç () # Tekeli () # Tütünlü () # Uğuraçan () # Yaylapınar () # Yufkalı () The district has forty-two hamlets: # Aktütün () # Aşağıkayalar # Aşağıtuğlu () # Balıklı () # Binahare () # Çamlıca () # Çiçekli # Deravi () # Dereyanı () # Elmalı () # Erik () # Güleç () # Güzekaya () # Güzelkonak () # Harbanlı # İncesu () # Karakuş # Kayacık (of Beyyurdu) # Kayacık (of Boğazköy) # Kepenek () # Koçbaşı () # Mağaraönü () # Meşeli () # Oğlaklı () # Olgunlar () # Öncü () # Rüzgarlı () # Samanlı () # Sarıca () # Seçkin () # Tanyolu () # Tuğlu () # Üçgöze () # Üstünağaç () # Üzümkıran (of Ayranlı, ) # Üzümkıran (of Meşelik) # Veliköy () # Yaman () # Yeniceli () # Yeşilbayır () # Yeşilköy () # Zorgeçit ()

Population

The district is populated by

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. Population history from 1997 to 2023 (includes Derecik District until 2018):

References

{{coord missing, Turkey Districts of Hakkâri Province Şemdinli District States and territories established in 1936