Tutak, Turkey
| Tutak | |
|---|---|
 Tutak
|
|
| Coordinates: Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. | |
| Country | Turkey |
| Province | Ağrı |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Fırat Öztürk (BDP) |
| • Kaymakam | Gürbüz Saltaş |
| Area[1] | |
| • District | 1,543.98 km2 (596.13 sq mi) |
| Population (2012)[2] | |
| • Urban | 7,184 |
| • District | 34,222 |
| • District density | 22/km2 (57/sq mi) |
| Post code | 04700 |
| Website | www.tutak.bel.tr |
Tutak (Armenian: Դութախ - Duthakh), is a town and a district of Ağrı Province in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. It is located on a small plain surrounded by high mountains and watered by the Murat River, on the road from the city of Ağrı to the district of Patnos. It covers an area of 1,562 km², and the altitude is 1,535 m. Population (2010) is 34,812 of which 7,170 live in the town of Tutak, and the majority in the surrounding countryside. The mayor is Fırat Öztürk (BDP).
Tutak is a small town providing schools, a hospital and other basic amenities to this impoverished rural district. The main source of income in the district is grazing livestock on the mountainside.
Winters are long and hard with a lot of snow, summers are hot and dry.
See also
References
|
Tutak, Turkey in Ağrı Province of Turkey
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Districts |
  |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Metropolitan municipalities are bolded.
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
 |
This geographical article about a location in Ağrı Province, Turkey is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
