Middle East
Turkey
Nevşehir Province

Avanos

Avanos is a town in , in an area riddled by ancient underground dwellings. Its main industry is pottery and in 2022 its population was 15,000.
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  • Type: Town with 13,500 residents
  • Description: district and town in Nevşehir, Turkey
  • Also known as: “Βένασα”

Avanos

Latitude
38.7187° or 38° 43′ 8″ north
Longitude
34.8469° or 34° 50′ 49″ east
Population
13,500
Elevation
927 metres (3,041 feet)
Open location code
8GCPPR9W+FP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 87832528
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
322965
Wiki­data ID
Q790160
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Avanos” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Avanos”
  • Arabic: “أوانوس”
  • Arabic: “أَوَانُوسُ”
  • Armenian: “Ավանոս”
  • Asturian: “Avanos (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Avanos”
  • Avaric: “Аванос”
  • Catalan: “Avanos”
  • Cebuano: “Avanos İlçesi”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئاڤانۆس”
  • Chechen: “Аванос”
  • Chinese: “Avanos”
  • Chinese: “阿瓦诺斯”
  • Chinese: “阿瓦諾斯”
  • Dutch: “Avanos”
  • Esperanto: “Avanos”
  • French: “Avanos”
  • Gagauz: “Avanos”
  • German: “Avanos”
  • Gilaki: “آوانؤس”
  • Greek: “Άβανος Καππαδοκίας”
  • Greek: “Άβανος”
  • Hebrew: “אוונוס”
  • Hungarian: “Avanos”
  • Irish: “Avanos”
  • Italian: “Avanos”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Avanos”
  • Lithuanian: “Avanosas”
  • Malay: “Avanos”
  • Mazanderani: “آوانوس”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Avanos”
  • Moksha: “Аванос”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Avanos”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Avanos”
  • Norwegian: “Avanos”
  • Persian: “آوانوس”
  • Persian: “اوانوس”
  • Polish: “Avanos”
  • Portuguese: “Avanos”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade subterrânea de Özkonak”
  • Portuguese: “Ozkonak”
  • Portuguese: “Özkonak”
  • Portuguese: “Venessa”
  • Romanian: “Avanos”
  • Russian: “Аванос”
  • Serbian: “Аванос”
  • Spanish: “Avanos”
  • Swahili: “Avanos”
  • Tajik: “Аванос”
  • Tatar: “Аванос”
  • Turkish: “Avanos, Nevşehir”
  • Turkish: “Avanos”
  • Ukrainian: “Аванос”
  • Urdu: “آوانوس”
  • Vietnamese: “Avanos”
  • Western Mari: “Аванос”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع اووانوس”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Avanos”. Photo: Korkut Tas, CC BY-SA 3.0.