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Alakamış, Turkey

Alakamış is a town of 1,094 people in Şırnak, Turkey.

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Population1,094 GeoNames
RegionŞırnak
Elevation637 m 2,090 ft
Time zoneEurope/Istanbul
Nearest airportŞırnak Şerafettin Elçi Airport (NKT) 33 km

About Alakamış

Alakamış (Kurdish: Eleqamiş) is a village in the İdil District of Şırnak Province in Turkey. The village is populated by Kurds of the Hemikan tribe and had a population of 693 in 2021.

From the Wikipedia article Alakamış, İdil (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Map of Alakamış

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Getting there and nearby towns

Şırnak Şerafettin Elçi Airport (NKT) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 33 km away.

  • Çığır 4 km west, about 4 min by car
  • Uğrak 5 km northwest, about 5 min by car
  • Varımlı 5 km northeast, about 5 min by car
  • Oyalı 8 km northwest, about 8 min by car
  • Cizre 40 km northeast, about 40 min by car
  • Midyat 49 km northwest, about 49 min by car
  • Nusaybin 52 km west, about 52 min by car
  • Silopi 60 km east, about 1 h by car
  • Hasankeyf 70 km northwest, about 1 h 15 min by car
  • Siirt 87 km north, about 1 h 30 min by car

Drive times are estimates from straight-line distance, not routes.

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