Çukurca 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 17,734 in 2023 with the town of

Çukurca Çukurca (, , ) is a municipality (belde) and seat of Çukurca District in Hakkâri Province of Turkey. The city is populated by Kurds of the Ertoşî and Pinyanişî tribes and had a population of 1,0252 in 2023. The mayor is Ensar Dündar from J ...

as its seat. Its area is 725 km². And Çukurca has border with iraqi Kurdistan at the south point of there border The current district governor (''

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)'' is Hasan Kurt. The district has more unpopulated settlements than populated ones. The district was established in 1953.

Settlements

There is one

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in Çukurca District: *

() The district has sixteen villages of which eight are unpopulated: # Akkaya () # Cevizli () # Çağlayan () # Çayırlı () # Çığlı () # Çınarlı () # Dede () # Gündeş () # Işıklı () # Kavaklı () # Kavuşak () # Kayalık () #

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() # Kurudere () # Narlı () # Üzümlü () There are moreover thirty-four

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in the district.

Population

Population history from 2007 to 2023:

References

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