Nurdağı is a town of
Gaziantep Province
Gaziantep Province ( tr, ) is a province in south-central Turkey. It is located in the westernmost part of Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia Region and partially in the Mediterranean Region. Its capital is the city of Gaziantep. It neighbours Ad ...
of
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...
. Nurdağı is west of the city of
Gaziantep
Gaziantep (), previously and still informally called Aintab or Antep (), is a major city and capital of the Gaziantep Province, in the westernmost part of Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia Region and partially in the Mediterranean Region, approximat ...
. The population was 40,793 as of 2020.
A
magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck from Nurdağı on 6 February 2023, causing widespread devastation in the town and around 2,500 deaths.
Mass graves were created to bury the overwhelming number of dead in the area.
References
Populated places in Gaziantep Province
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