Demre
Demre is a town in Lycia on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, with a population of 27,700 in 2022. It stands over the ruins of ancient Myra, where Saint Nicholas was bishop in the 4th century AD.
Photo: Hispalois, Public domain.Places of Interest
Highlights: St. Nicholas and Myra.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Beymelek and Köşkerler.
Beymelek
Suburb
Beymelek is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Demre, Antalya Province, Turkey.
Köşkerler
Village
Köşkerler is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Demre, Antalya Province, Turkey. Köşkerler is situated 4 km north of Demre.
Demre
- Category: locality
- Location: Antalya Province, Turkey, Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Europe
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Latitude
36.2446° or 36° 14′ 40″ north
Longitude
29.9876° or 29° 59′ 15″ east
Population
27,200
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
Open location code
8G8F6XVQ+R2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Mari—“Demre” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دمرة”
- Asturian: “Demre”
- Bulgarian: “Демре”
- Catalan: “Demre”
- Cebuano: “Demre İlçesi”
- Chechen: “Демре”
- Chinese: “代姆雷”
- Dimli (individual language): “Demre”
- Dutch: “Demre”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دمره”
- Esperanto: “Demre”
- Finnish: “Demre”
- French: “Demre”
- Gagauz: “Demre”
- Galician: “Demre”
- German: “Demre”
- Gilaki: “دمره”
- Greek: “Ντεμρέ”
- Hebrew: “דמרה”
- Hungarian: “Demre”
- Irish: “Demre”
- Italian: “Demre”
- Japanese: “デムレ”
- Lak: “Демре”
- Lithuanian: “Demrė”
- Malay: “Demre”
- Mazanderani: “دمره”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Demre”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Demre”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Demre”
- Norwegian: “Demre”
- Persian: “دمره”
- Polish: “Demre”
- Romanian: “Demre”
- Russian: “Демре”
- Russian: “Кале”
- Rusyn: “Демре”
- Serbian: “Демре”
- Slovak: “Demre”
- Slovenian: “Demre”
- South Azerbaijani: “دمره”
- Spanish: “Demre”
- Swahili: “Demre”
- Swedish: “Demre”
- Tatar: “Демре”
- Turkish: “Demre”
- Ukrainian: “Демре”
- Urdu: “دمرہ”
- Vietnamese: “Demre”
- Vietnamese: “Kale”
- Western Mari: “Демре”
- “Demre”
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