Meram

Meram is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 1,822 km2, and its population is 348,325. Meram is one of the central districts of , along with the districts of and .
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Wikipedia
  • Type: Town with 346,000 residents
  • Description: district of Konya, central Turkey
  • Also known as: “Meram district”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Konya Archaeological Museum and Konya Ethnography Museum.

Museum
Photo: Murat Özsoy 1958, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a state archaeological museum in , Turkey. Established in 1901, it had been relocated twice before moving to its present location in 1962.

Museum
is an ethnographic museum devoted to the people, cultures and lifestyle in and around , Turkey. The museum is on Sahip Ata Street.

Museum
Photo: دانقولا, CC0.
The Mevlâna Museum, in , Turkey, started life as the dervish lodge of the Mevlevi order, better known as the whirling dervishes. It houses the mausoleum of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, an Iranian Sufi mystic.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Konya and Karatay.

Photo: Emadnemati, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a city in in Turkey, known as the city of "whirling dervishes" and for its outstanding Seljuk architecture. In 2021 metropolis had a population of 2,277,017, the sixth largest in Turkey, but the area of most interest is compact.

Town
Photo: JoJan, CC BY 3.0.
is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 2,832 km and will be able to produce 26 GWh of electricity annually.

Town
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is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 1,931 km2, and its population is 690,667. is one of the central districts of , along with the districts of and Meram.

Meram

Latitude
37.86795° or 37° 52′ 5″ north
Longitude
32.49465° or 32° 29′ 41″ east
Population
346,000
Elevation
1,030 metres (3,379 feet)
Open location code
8G9JVF9V+5V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 259660567
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
304582
Wiki­data ID
Q3055997
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Mari—“Meram” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مرام (قونية)”
  • Arabic: “مرام”
  • Arabic: “مِرَام”
  • Armenian: “Մերամ”
  • Asturian: “Meram (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Meram”
  • Cebuano: “Meram İlçesi”
  • Chechen: “Мерам”
  • Chinese: “Meram”
  • Chinese: “梅拉姆”
  • Danish: “Meram”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Meram”
  • Dutch: “Meram”
  • French: “Meram”
  • German: “Meram”
  • Greek: “Μεράμ”
  • Irish: “Meram”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Meram”
  • Kurdish: “Meram”
  • Malay: “Meram”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Meram”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Meram”
  • Norwegian: “Meram”
  • Persian: “مرام (ترکیه)”
  • Persian: “مرام”
  • Russian: “Мерам”
  • Serbian: “Мерам”
  • Slovenian: “Meram”
  • Spanish: “Meram”
  • Swahili: “Meram”
  • Tatar: “Мерам”
  • Turkish: “Meram”
  • Urdu: “میرام”
  • Uzbek: “Meram”
  • Vietnamese: “Meram”
  • Western Mari: “Мерам”
  • “Meram ilçesi”

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