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Cappadocia

Cappadocia is an area within South Central Anatolia in Turkey, with a surreal landscape dotted with underground cities, cave churches and houses carved in the rocks.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Nevşehir and Ürgüp.

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is a city in Cappadocia, with a population of 118,000 in 2020. It traditionally made carpets and wine, but the main business today is tourism.

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is a town in Cappadocia in central Turkey, in a landscape of soft volcanic tuff that has eroded into hoodoos or "fairy chimneys", and that has been excavated into cave dwellings. In 2022 the population was 24,600.

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is a town in the Cappadocia region of Turkey, with a population of 2034 in 2022. It's at the heart of the "fairy chimney" landscape, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list, with soft volcanic tuff eroded into fantastical rock formations and excavated into cave dwellings.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Avanos and Güzelyurt.

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is a town in Cappadocia, 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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is a village in , on the west edge of Cappadocia 48 km southeast of . Its population is falling and in 2021 was 2,570.

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is a small town in Cappadocia where pinnacles of soft tuff have been hollowed out into bastions and dwellings. Uç hisar means "outermost fort", the fortified main pinnacle.
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Cappadocia

Latitude of center
38.6386° or 38° 38′ 19″ north
Longitude of center
34.8455° or 34° 50′ 44″ east
Open­Street­Map ID
node 417761133
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­locality
Open­Street­Map feature
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Wiki­data ID
Q217265
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Cappadocia” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kappadosië”
  • Albanian: “Kapadokia”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Καππαδοκία”
  • Arabic: “قبادوقيا”
  • Arabic: “قبادوقية”
  • Arabic: “قباذق”
  • Arabic: “قباذوقية”
  • Arabic: “كبادوكيا”
  • Armenian: “Գամիրք”
  • Armenian: “Կապադովկիա”
  • Asturian: “Capadocia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kappadokiya”
  • Bashkir: “Каппадокия”
  • Basque: “Kapadozia”
  • Belarusian: “Кападокія”
  • Bosnian: “Kapadokija”
  • Breton: “Kappadokia”
  • Bulgarian: “Кападокия”
  • Burmese: “ကပ်ပါဒိုရှာ”
  • Catalan: “Capadòcia a la part del Pont”
  • Catalan: “Capadòcia a la part del Taure”
  • Catalan: “Capadòcia del costat del Taure”
  • Catalan: “Capadòcia”
  • Chechen: “Каппадоки”
  • Chinese: “加柏都斯亞”
  • Chinese: “卡帕多基亚”
  • Chinese: “卡帕多奇亞”
  • Chinese: “卡帕多细亚”
  • Chinese: “卡帕多西亚”
  • Chinese: “卡帕多西亞”
  • Chuvash: “Каппадоки”
  • Croatian: “Kapadocija”
  • Czech: “Kappadokie”
  • Danish: “Kappadokien”
  • Dutch: “Cappadocie”
  • Dutch: “Cappadocië”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كبادوكيا”
  • Esperanto: “Kapadocio”
  • Estonian: “Kapadookia”
  • Finnish: “Kappadokia”
  • French: “Cappadoce”
  • Galician: “Capadocia”
  • Georgian: “კაპადოკია”
  • German: “Kappadokien”
  • Greek: “Καππαδοκία”
  • Hebrew: “/קפדוקיה”
  • Hebrew: “קפדוקיה”
  • Hindi: “कप्पडोक्य”
  • Hungarian: “Kappadókia”
  • Icelandic: “Kappadókía”
  • Ido: “Kapadocia”
  • Indonesian: “Kapadokia”
  • Irish: “An Chapadóic”
  • Italian: “Cappadocia”
  • Japanese: “カッパドキア”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Cappadocia”
  • Kazakh: “Каппадокия”
  • Kirghiz: “Кападокия”
  • Komi: “Каппадокия”
  • Kongo: “Cappadocia”
  • Korean: “카파도키아”
  • Kurdish: “Kapadokya”
  • Latin: “Cappadocia”
  • Latvian: “Kapadokija”
  • Ligurian: “Cappadocia”
  • Limburgan: “Cappadocië”
  • Lithuanian: “Kapadokija”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Cappadocia”
  • Macedonian: “Кападокија”
  • Malagasy: “Kapadokia”
  • Malagasy: “Kapadôkia”
  • Malay: “Cappadocia”
  • Malayalam: “കപ്പഡോക്കിയ”
  • Mazanderani: “کاتپاتوکیا”
  • Mingrelian: “კაპადოკია”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kappadokia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kappadokia”
  • Norwegian: “Kappadokia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Capadòcia”
  • Ossetian: “Каппадоки”
  • Persian: “کاپادوکیه”
  • Persian: “کت پاتوکی”
  • Polish: “Kapadocja”
  • Pontic: “Καππαδοκία”
  • Portuguese: “Capadócia”
  • Romanian: “Cappadocia”
  • Russian: “Каппадокия”
  • Sakizaya: “Ka-pa-tu-ci-ya”
  • Scots: “Cappadocia”
  • Serbian: “Кападокија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kapadokija”
  • Sicilian: “Cappadocia”
  • Slovak: “Kapadócia”
  • Slovenian: “Kapadokija”
  • Spanish: “Capadocia”
  • Swahili: “Kapadokia”
  • Swedish: “Kappadokien”
  • Swiss German: “Kappadokie”
  • Tagalog: “Capadocia”
  • Tamil: “கப்படோசியா நகரம்”
  • Tamil: “கப்படோசீயா”
  • Thai: “แคปพาโดเชีย”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Kappadokien”
  • Turkish: “Kapadokya”
  • Turkish: “Kappadokya”
  • Turkish: “Peri Bacaları”
  • Ukrainian: “Каппадокія”
  • Urdu: “کپادوکیا”
  • Urdu: “کیپادوکیا”
  • Uzbek: “Kappadokiya”
  • Venetian: “Capadocia”
  • Veps: “Kappadokii”
  • Vietnamese: “Cappadocia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cappadocia”
  • Welsh: “Cappadocia”
  • Western Armenian: “Կապադովկիա”
  • Western Panjabi: “کپادوکیا”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡帕多细亚”
  • Yue Chinese: “卡帕多奇亞”

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