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Erciş

Erciş

Erciş is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 2,133 km2, and its population is 171,000. It is located at the northern end of .
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  • Type: Town with 173,000 residents
  • Description: district and town in Van Province, Turkey
  • Also known as: “Arcis”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Çelebibağı.

Village
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is a village, which is situated 6 km southwest of Erciş.

Erciş

Latitude
39.029° or 39° 1′ 44″ north
Longitude
43.3591° or 43° 21′ 33″ east
Population
173,000
Elevation
1,682 metres (5,518 feet)
United Nations Location Code
TR RCS
Open location code
8HF529H5+HJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 127587026
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
315530
Wiki­data ID
Q695365
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Erciş” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أرجيش”
  • Arabic: “إرجيش”
  • Armenian: “Ականց”
  • Armenian: “Արճեշ”
  • Asturian: “Erciş (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Erciş”
  • Azerbaijani: “Erciş”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ərciş”
  • Bengali: “আর্জিশ”
  • Catalan: “Ardjesh”
  • Catalan: “Ardjish”
  • Catalan: “Artzike”
  • Catalan: “Ercis”
  • Catalan: “Erciş”
  • Cebuano: “Erciş”
  • Chechen: “Эрджиш”
  • Chinese: “Erciş”
  • Chinese: “埃尔吉斯”
  • Chinese: “埃爾吉斯”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Erciş”
  • Dutch: “Erciş”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ارجيش”
  • Finnish: “Ercis”
  • Finnish: “Erciş”
  • French: “Ercis”
  • French: “Erciş”
  • Gagauz: “Erciş”
  • German: “Ercis”
  • German: “Erciş”
  • Gilaki: “ارجيش”
  • Greek: “Ερτζίς”
  • Ido: “Erciş”
  • Indonesian: “Erciş”
  • Irish: “Erciş”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Erciş”
  • Japanese: “エルジシュ”
  • Kirghiz: “Эржиш”
  • Korean: “에르지슈”
  • Kurdish: “Erciş”
  • Kurdish: “Erdiş”
  • Kurdish: “Erdîş”
  • Kurdish: “ئەردیش”
  • Malay: “Erciş”
  • Mazanderani: “ارجیش”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Erciş”
  • Minangkabau: “Erciş”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Erciş”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ercis”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Erciş”
  • Norwegian: “Erciş”
  • Ossetian: “Эрджиш”
  • Persian: “ارجیش”
  • Persian: “ارچیش”
  • Polish: “Ercis”
  • Polish: “Erciş”
  • Portuguese: “Arčeš”
  • Portuguese: “Archexe”
  • Portuguese: “Erchixe”
  • Portuguese: “Erciş”
  • Portuguese: “Erdiş”
  • Portuguese: “Erdixe”
  • Portuguese: “Erjixe”
  • Romanian: “Erciş”
  • Russian: “Эрджиш”
  • Serbian: “Ерџиш”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Erciş”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ارجیش”
  • Spanish: “Erciş”
  • Swahili: “Erciş”
  • Tatar: “Эрҗиш”
  • Turkish: “Erciş”
  • Ukrainian: “Ерджиш”
  • Urdu: “ارجیش”
  • Uzbek: “Erciş”
  • Vietnamese: “Erciş”
  • Western Mari: “Эрджиш”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع ارجش”
  • “Erciş”

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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 “Erciş”. Photo: Sabri76, Public domain.