Ovacık

Ovacık is a municipality and seat of the in , . It is populated by Alevi Kurds of the Abasan tribe and had a population of 3,018 in 2021.
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  • Type: Town with 3,270 residents
  • Description: town and district in Tunceli Province, Turkey
  • Also known as: Maraşalçakmak”, “Mareşalçakmak”, and “Ovacık, Tunceli

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Konaklar and Öveçler.

Village
is a village in the , , . The village is populated by Kurds of the Aslanan tribe and had a population of 49 in 2021.

Village
is a village in the , , . The village is populated by Kurds of the Aslanan tribe and had a population of 29 in 2021. The hamlet of Yukarıöveçler is attached to the village.

Village
is a village in the , , . The village is populated by Kurds of non-tribal affiliation and had a population of 95 in 2021. is situated 2½ km northwest of Ovacık.

Ovacık

Latitude
39.35838° or 39° 21′ 30″ north
Longitude
39.21445° or 39° 12′ 52″ east
Population
3,270
Elevation
1,233 metres (4,045 feet)
Open location code
8GFX9657+9Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 303267892
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
303107
Wiki­data ID
Q963947
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yoruba—“Ovacık” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: أواجق
  • Armenian: Բլուր
  • Asturian: Ovacık (distritu)
  • Asturian: Ovacık
  • Central Kurdish: پلوور
  • Chechen: Оваджик
  • Chinese: Ovacık
  • Czech: Ovacık
  • Dimli (individual language): Pulur
  • Dutch: Ovacik
  • Dutch: Ovacık
  • Egyptian Arabic: اواجق
  • French: Ovacık
  • German: Ovacık
  • Greek: Οβατζίκ
  • Irish: Ovacık
  • Japanese: オヴァジュク
  • Kurdish: Pulur
  • Kurdish: Pûlûr
  • Malay: Ovacık
  • Min Nan Chinese: Ovacık
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Ovacık
  • Norwegian: Ovacık
  • Persian: اواجیک
  • Russian: Оваджик
  • Russian: Оваджык
  • Serbian: Оваџик
  • Slovak: Ovacık
  • Swahili: Ovacık, Tunceli
  • Swahili: Ovacık
  • Tatar: Оваҗык (Тунҗэли)
  • Tatar: Оваҗык
  • Turkish: Ovacık, Tunceli
  • Turkish: Ovacık
  • Urdu: اوواجک، تونجیلی
  • Urdu: اوواجک
  • Uzbek: Ovacık
  • Vietnamese: Ovacık, Tunceli
  • Vietnamese: Ovacık
  • Western Mari: Оваджык
  • Western Panjabi: ضلع اوواجک
  • Yoruba: Ovacık
  • Ovacık

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ovacık”. Photo: Arser, CC BY 3.0.