Turkey
Eastern Anatolia
Bitlis Province

Tatvan

Tatvan is a town in , on the western shore of Lake Van. It had a population of 82,000 in 2022, with another 17,000 in its associated villages.
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  • Type: Town with 96,900 residents
  • Description: district and town in Bitlis, Turkey
  • Postal code: 13200

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tatvan Pier railway station.

Railway station
Photo: Hallacoglu13, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a railway station and in Tatvan, . Situated on the western shore of , the station serves as a connection between modes of transport, with two slips carrying a total of seven tracks.

Tatvan

Latitude
38.4932° or 38° 29′ 36″ north
Longitude
42.2878° or 42° 17′ 16″ east
Population
96,900
Elevation
1,682 metres (5,518 feet)
Open location code
8HC4F7VQ+74
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6748920076
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
299582
Wiki­data ID
Q1012862
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Mari—“Tatvan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تاتوان”
  • Armenian: “Դատվան”
  • Asturian: “Tatvan (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Tatvan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tatvan”
  • Catalan: “Tatvan”
  • Cebuano: “Tatvan”
  • Central Kurdish: “تووختەوان”
  • Chechen: “Татван”
  • Chinese: “Tatvan”
  • Chinese: “塔特万”
  • Chinese: “塔特萬”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Tetwan”
  • Dutch: “Tatvan (stad)”
  • Dutch: “Tatvan”
  • Dutch: “Tetwan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تاتفان”
  • Esperanto: “Tatvan”
  • French: “Tatvan”
  • Gagauz: “Tatvan”
  • Georgian: “თათვანი”
  • German: “Tatvan”
  • German: “Tetwan”
  • Gilaki: “تاتوان”
  • Greek: “Τατβάν”
  • Hebrew: “טאטואן”
  • Irish: “Tatvan”
  • Japanese: “タトヴァン”
  • Japanese: “タトワン”
  • Kurdish: “Tatwan”
  • Kurdish: “Tetwan”
  • Kurdish: “Tûx”
  • Kurdish: “تەتوان”
  • Lithuanian: “Tatvanas”
  • Malay: “Tatvan”
  • Mazanderani: “تاتوان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tatvan”
  • Minangkabau: “Tatvan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tatvan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tatvan”
  • Norwegian: “Tatvan”
  • Ossetian: “Татван”
  • Persian: “تاتوان”
  • Polish: “Tatvan”
  • Portuguese: “Tatvan”
  • Russian: “Татван”
  • Serbian: “Татван”
  • Silesian: “Tatvan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تاتوان”
  • Swahili: “Tatvan”
  • Swedish: “Tatvan”
  • Tatar: “Татван”
  • Turkish: “Tatvan”
  • Urdu: “تاتوان”
  • Vietnamese: “Tatvan”
  • Western Mari: “Татван”

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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 “Tatvan”. Photo: Nemrutkardelen, CC BY-SA 3.0.