Malatya
Malatya is a city of half a million people in Eastern Anatolia. It has limited sights for a city of its size, but here you might break a journey to Mount Nemrut and the eastern fringes of Turkey.
- Type: City with 781,000 residents
- Description: metropolitan municipality in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey
- Also known as: “Aspuzu”, “Jimbo la Malatya”, “Malatia”, “Malatiyah”, “Malatjo”, “Melatia”, “Meletye”, “Melide”, “Melitena”, “Meliténé”, “Milid”, “Μελιτηνή”, “Малада”, “Мелитена”, “Мелитина”, “Մալադիա”, “Մելիտինե”, “ملاطية”, “مَلَاطِيَةُ”, “ملاطیه”, “ملتیه”, “مَلَطْيَةُ”, “말라티야”, “マラティア”, “マラテヤ”, and “マラトヤ”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Malatya Museum and New Mosque, Malatya.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hanımınçiftliği.
Malatya
- Categories: metropolitan municipality in Turkey and locality
- Location: Malatya Province, Eastern Anatolia, Turkey, Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Europe
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Latitude
38.3487° or 38° 20′ 55″ north
Longitude
38.3191° or 38° 19′ 9″ east
Population
781,000
Elevation
963 metres (3,159 feet)
IATA airport code
MLX
UN/LOCODE
TR MLX
Open location code
8GCW88X9+FM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Malatya” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ملطية”
- Armenian: “Մալաթիա”
- Asturian: “Malatya”
- Azerbaijani: “Malatya”
- Basque: “Malatya”
- Belarusian: “Малат’я”
- Belarusian: “Малатя”
- Breton: “Malatya”
- Bulgarian: “Малатия”
- Catalan: “Malatya”
- Central Kurdish: “مەلەتی”
- Central Kurdish: “مەلەدی”
- Chechen: “Малати”
- Chinese: “馬拉蒂亞”
- Chinese: “马拉蒂亚”
- Crimean Tatar: “Malatya”
- Czech: “Malatya”
- Danish: “Malatya”
- Dimli (individual language): “Meletiya”
- Dimli (individual language): “Meletiye”
- Dutch: “Malatya”
- Esperanto: “Malatya”
- Finnish: “Malatya”
- French: “Malatya”
- Gagauz: “Malatya”
- Georgian: “მალათია”
- German: “Malatya”
- Gilaki: “ملطيه”
- Greek: “Μαλάτεια”
- Hebrew: “מלטיה”
- Hindi: “मलत्या”
- Hindi: “मालात्या”
- Hungarian: “Malatya”
- Indonesian: “Malatya”
- Italian: “Malatya”
- Japanese: “マラティヤ”
- Kabardian: “Malatya”
- Kazakh: “Malatʹya”
- Kazakh: “Малатиа”
- Kazakh: “Малатья”
- Kazakh: “مالاتيا”
- Kinyarwanda: “Malatya”
- Korean: “말라티아”
- Kurdish: “Meledî”
- Kurdish: “Meletî”
- Kurdish: “مەلەدی”
- Latin: “Melitene”
- Latvian: “Malatja”
- Lithuanian: “Malatija”
- Lombard: “Malatya”
- Macedonian: “Малатија”
- Malay: “Malatya”
- Mazanderani: “ملطیه”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Malatya”
- Minangkabau: “Malatya”
- Nauru: “Malatya”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Malatya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Malatya”
- Norwegian: “Malatya”
- Ossetian: “Малатья”
- Panjabi: “ਮਲਾਤਿਆ”
- Persian: “ملطیه”
- Polish: “Malatya”
- Portuguese: “Malátia”
- Pushto: “مالاتیه”
- Romanian: “Malatya”
- Russian: “Малатья”
- Scots: “Malatya”
- Serbian: “Malatija”
- Serbian: “Малатија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Malatya”
- Silesian: “Malatya”
- Slovak: “Malatya”
- Slovenian: “Malatya”
- South Azerbaijani: “مالاتیا”
- Spanish: “Malatya”
- Swahili: “Malatya”
- Swedish: “Malatya”
- Tajik: “Малатия”
- Talysh: “Malatja”
- Talysh: “Malatya”
- Tatar: “Малатия”
- Tatar: “Малатья”
- Turkish: “Malatya”
- Udmurt: “Малатья”
- Ukrainian: “Малатья”
- Urdu: “مالاطیہ”
- Urdu: “ملاطیہ”
- Vietnamese: “Malatya”
- Waray (Philippines): “Malatya”
- Western Armenian: “Մալաթիա”
- Western Mari: “Малатья”
- Western Panjabi: “ملطیه”
- Wu Chinese: “马拉蒂亚”
- “Malatya”
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