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.
  • Town with about 7,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 1,230 metres (4,050 feet)
  • Description: town and district in Tunceli Province, Turkey
  • Also known as
    “Maraşalçakmak”
    “Mareşalçakmak”
    “Ovacık, Tunceli”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Konaklar and Öveçler.
is a village in the , , Turkey. is situated 2½ km northwest of Ovacık.
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Latitude
39.35838° or 39° 21′ 30″ north
Longitude
39.21445° or 39° 12′ 52″ east
Open location code
8GFX9657+9Q
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Open­Street­Map feature
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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”
  • Czech: “Ovacık”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Pulur”
  • Dutch: “Ovacık”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اواجق”
  • French: “Ovacık”
  • German: “Ovacık”
  • Greek: “Οβατζίκ”
  • Irish: “Ovacık”
  • Japanese: “オヴァジュク”
  • 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”

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Ovacık Belediyesi and Ovacık Kayak Merkezi.

Turkey: Highlights

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