LeeskoAtlas

City

Diyarbakır

Turkey

Watercolour of Diyarbakır, Turkey. Along the Tigris River, the ancient city of colossal black basalt walls and Hevsel Gardens, with Diyarbakır Fortress Walls and Ongözlü Bridge.
AI-generated artistic rendering. Painted from written research on the city's setting, architecture and materials — not from a photograph.
What guided this image
Landmarks
Diyarbakır Fortress Walls; Ongözlü Bridge; Hevsel Gardens; Great Mosque of Diyarbakır; Hevsel; lush Upper Mesopotamian flora; Tigris River
Viewpoint
Favor the classic viewpoint looking up the Tigris River toward the ten graceful stone arches of Ongözlü Köprü with the high basalt cliff and fortress walls rising above the Hevsel Gardens, showing riverbank reeds and poplar branches in the foreground, the historic bridge arches and river reflections in the middle-ground, and the dark basalt city walls crowning the plateau in the background.
Palette
Green should be the predominant color, especially in the sprawling Hevsel Gardens floodplain, poplar woods along the Tigris, and orchard canopies.
Guarded against
Not Mardin, Gaziantep, or Urfa
Population1,833,684Wikidata: 1,732,396
Coordinates37.91°N, 40.22°E
Elevation675 m
Time zoneEurope/IstanbulUTC+3
Solar noon12:19clock runs 0.3 h ahead of the sun

Through the Earth

Dig straight through the Earth from Diyarbakır and you surface in open ocean, nearest to Adamstown, Pitcairn Islands — 1,695 km from the exact antipodal point.

Nearest cities in the atlas

GaziantepTR268 km
Al Mawşil al JadīdahIQ311 km
MosulIQ311 km
AleppoSY331 km
ErbilIQ387 km
KayseriTR423 km
AdanaTR444 km
YerevanAM448 km

Twinned cities

1 of 1 twinned cities are in this atlas. See the full network →

This city sits on

Wikipedia Official site