Turkey
Nevşehir Province
Ürgüp District

Göreme

Göreme is a town in the 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.
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  • Type: Village with 6,350 residents
  • Description: town of Turkey and district of Nevşehir Province
  • Also known as: “Avcılar”, “Goereme”, “Korama”, “Maçan”, “Maccan”, “Matiána”, and “Κόραμα”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Göreme Open Air Museum and Church of the Buckle.

Museum
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Göreme is a district of the in . After the eruption of about 2.6 million years ago, ash and lava formed soft rocks in the region, covering an area of about 20,000 square kilometres.

Church
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Church
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Uçhisar and Cavusin.

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

Village
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Göreme is a town in the 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.

Village
Photo: W. Bulach, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, previously known by its Byzantine name Potamía, is a town in the , , Turkey. Its population is 3,086. is located about 20 km east of the provincial capital, . is situated 4 km southeast of Göreme.

Göreme

Latitude
38.6421° or 38° 38′ 32″ north
Longitude
34.8296° or 34° 49′ 47″ east
Population
6,350
Elevation
1,082 metres (3,550 feet)
Open location code
8GCPJRRH+RR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27151548
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
313947
Wiki­data ID
Q6710593
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Göreme” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “غوريم”
  • Armenian: “Գյորեմե”
  • Asturian: “Göreme”
  • Azerbaijani: “Görəmə”
  • Belarusian: “Гёрэмэ”
  • Bosnian: “Göreme”
  • Catalan: “Göreme”
  • Cebuano: “Göreme”
  • Chechen: “Гоьреме”
  • Chinese: “格雷梅”
  • Croatian: “Göreme”
  • Czech: “Göreme”
  • Dutch: “Goreme”
  • Dutch: “Göreme”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جوريم”
  • French: “Göreme”
  • Georgian: “გორემეს ეროვნული პარკი”
  • German: “Göreme”
  • Greek: “Γκιόρεμε”
  • Hebrew: “גרמה”
  • Hindi: “गोरम”
  • Hungarian: “Göreme”
  • Indonesian: “Göreme”
  • Interlingue: “Göreme”
  • Irish: “Göreme”
  • Italian: “Göreme”
  • Japanese: “ギョレメ国立公園”
  • Korean: “괴레메”
  • Latin: “Corama”
  • Lithuanian: “Gioremės”
  • Macedonian: “Ѓореме”
  • Maithili: “गोरेमे राष्ट्रिय निकुञ्ज”
  • Mingrelian: “გორემეშ ერუანული პარკი”
  • Nepali: “गोरेमे राष्ट्रिय निकुञ्ज”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Göreme”
  • Norwegian: “Göreme”
  • Persian: “غورمه”
  • Persian: “گورمه”
  • Polish: “Göreme”
  • Portuguese: “Göreme”
  • Russian: “Гёреме”
  • Russian: “Гореме”
  • Serbian: “Gorema”
  • Serbian: “Горема”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Göreme”
  • Slovenian: “Göreme”
  • Spanish: “Göreme”
  • Swedish: “Göreme”
  • Thai: “เกอเรเม”
  • Thai: “เกอเรแม”
  • Turkish: “Göreme, Nevşehir”
  • Turkish: “Göreme”
  • Ukrainian: “Гьореме”
  • Urdu: “گوریمے”
  • Vietnamese: “Göreme”

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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 “Göreme”. Photo: Massimo Telò, CC BY-SA 3.0.