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Municipality in Elazığ, Turkey

Akçakiraz, Elazığ

Akçakiraz is a belde (town) in the central district of Elazığ Province, Turkey.

The place

Akçakiraz is a belde (town) in the central district of Elazığ Province, Turkey. Situated 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) south of Elazığ and near the junction of two Turkish state highways D.300 and D.885 which connect Elazığ to Bingöl and Diyarbakır respectively. Its population is 8,047 (2021).

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Akçakiraz, Elazığ

Airports
Şanlıurfa GAP (GNY), 134 km · Gaziantep Oğuzeli (GZT), 243 km
Stations
Elazığ Airport, 2.7 km
  • Şanlıurfa → Akçakiraz, Elazığ
    167 km · quickest by road, 4h 36m · ₺495–660
  • Gaziantep → Akçakiraz, Elazığ
    240 km · quickest by road, 5h 15m · ₺620–830
  • Kayseri → Akçakiraz, Elazığ
    329 km · quickest by road, 6h 34m · ₺790–1,050
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Akçakiraz, Elazığ

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Akçakiraz, Elazığ. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe train continues to Tatvan (7 hours), with dolmuşes and ferries to Van, and the twice weekly train to Tabriz and Tehran.
  • Get inA scenic alternative from Malatya is to turn north through Battalgazi and cross the Karakaya Dam lake by ferry, which sails three times a day and takes 20 min.
  • Go nextTunceli 80 km north via a ferry has rafting and mountain trekking.

From Wikivoyage: Elazığ, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    GyumriAM

    12 ways of moving, 47 sources

    460 km
  2. 02
    Vardzia and the Javakheti plateauGE

    12 ways of moving, 57 sources

    460 km
  3. 03
    KutaisiGE

    9 ways of moving, 40 sources

    498 km
  4. 04
    AbkhaziaGE

    10 ways of moving, 23 sources

    509 km
  5. 05
    Jvari and the Enguri valleyGE

    10 ways of moving, 37 sources

    513 km

If you know how people move in Akçakiraz, Elazığ – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Akçakiraz, Elazığ

Akçakiraz, Elazığ is 7 km from Elazığ, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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