Middle East
Turkey
Van Province

İpekyolu

İpekyolu is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 956 km2, and its population is 348,046. The district İpekyolu 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 291,000 residents
  • Description: district of Van, eastern Turkey
  • Also known as: “Ipekyolu” and “İpekyolu district”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Van railway station.

Railway station
Photo: Babbsack, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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 Tuşba.

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
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is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 1,948 km2, and its population is 163,301. The district was created at the 2013 reorganisation from part of the former central district of Van, along with the new district İpekyolu.

Suburb
is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of İpekyolu, , . Its population is 31,714. Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town in the central district of Van Province. is situated 3½ km east of İpekyolu.

İpekyolu

Latitude
38.5038° or 38° 30′ 14″ north
Longitude
43.3955° or 43° 23′ 44″ east
Population
291,000
Elevation
2,342 metres (7,684 feet)
Open location code
8HC5G93W+G6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4476599506
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
9550938
Wiki­data ID
Q16848468
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Turkish—“İpekyolu” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إيبك يولي”
  • Armenian: “Իփեքյոլու”
  • Asturian: “İpekyolu (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “İpekyolu”
  • Cebuano: “İpekyolu”
  • Central Bikol: “İpekyolu”
  • Chechen: “Ипекйолу”
  • German: “İpekyolu”
  • Greek: “Ιπέκιολου”
  • Ido: “İpekyolu”
  • Irish: “İpekyolu”
  • Kurdish: “Rêya Armûşê”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “İpekyolu”
  • Norwegian: “İpekyolu”
  • Persian: “ایپک‌یولو”
  • Serbian: “Ипекјолу”
  • Tatar: “Ипекйолу”
  • Turkish: “İpekyolu, Van”
  • Turkish: “İpekyolu”
  • “İpekyolu 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 “İpekyolu”. Photo: Moonik, CC BY-SA 3.0.