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Van Province

Tuşba

Tuşba is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 1,948 km2, and its population is 163,301. The district Tuşba was created at the 2013 reorganisation from part of the former central district of Van, along with the new district .
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  • Type: Town with 163,000 residents
  • Description: district of Van, eastern Turkey
  • Also known as: “Tuşba district”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Van Castle and Van Museum.

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The Fortress of Van is a massive stone fortification built by the ancient kingdom of Urartu during the 9th to 7th centuries BC, and is the largest example of its kind.

Museum
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The or Urartu Museum is a museum located in the city of in eastern . It showcases on 13,000 m2 a large archaeological and ethnographic record of human life and cultural development in the region from eastern Anatolia’s Stone Age to the present.

Railway station
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is the main railway station in , . Up until July 2015, the Trans-Asia Express, from , , stopped at the station. The train would continue to the Van Pier, where passengers would travel to Tatvan via ferry, and the western half of the train would continue to .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Van and İpekyolu.

Photo: Bahoz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a city in in Turkey. It's on the eastern shore of Lake near the border with Iran, so for Iranians it's an unlikely Reno, a holiday break from their restrictive theocracy.

Town
is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 956 km2, and its population is 348,046. The district was created at the 2013 reorganisation from part of the former central district of Van, along with the new district Tuşba.

Suburb
is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of , , . Its population is 31,714. Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town in the central district of Van Province. is situated 5 km east of Tuşba.

Tuşba

Latitude
38.5123° or 38° 30′ 44″ north
Longitude
43.3753° or 43° 22′ 31″ east
Population
163,000
Elevation
1,699 metres (5,574 feet)
Open location code
8HC5G96G+W4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4479054391
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
9550890
Wiki­data ID
Q16968873
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Turkish—“Tuşba” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “توشبا”
  • Asturian: “Tuşba (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Tuşba”
  • Cebuano: “Tusba İlçesi”
  • Chechen: “Тушба”
  • Chinese: “图什巴”
  • German: “Tuşba”
  • Greek: “Τουσμπά”
  • Hungarian: “Tuşba”
  • Ido: “Tuşba”
  • Irish: “Tuşba”
  • Kurdish: “Tuşpa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tuşba”
  • Norwegian: “Tuşba”
  • Portuguese: “Tusba”
  • Portuguese: “Tuşba”
  • Serbian: “Тушба”
  • Tatar: “Тушба”
  • Turkish: “Tuşba”
  • “Tuşba ilçesi”

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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 “Tuşba”. Photo: Myararat83, CC BY-SA 4.0.