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'Ceylanpınar' is an agricultural district of Şanlıurfa Province of Turkey, situated on the border with Syria and reached by a long straight road across the plain south from Viranşehir. There is a border crossing to the town of Resu'l-Ayn in Syria and many families in the district have relatives there. The border itself has been lined wıth land-mines but some of this is being cleared for farmland nowadays. ^[1]
The district covers an area of 2,003 km² and has a population of 67,817 (2000 census), of whom 44,258 live in the town of Ceylanpınar itself. ^[2]
1. http://www.kodadimedya.com/detay.asp?ID=6013
2. http://www.gabb.gov.tr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=149&Itemid=47