Eastern Anatolia
Tunceli Province
Tunceli

Tunceli

Tunceli is a city in the mountains of , with industries based on wheat. Its population was 36,000 in 2022, mostly Kurdish Alevis, whose religion is akin to the Sufi tradition of Islam.
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  • Type: City with 34,500 residents
  • Description: central district and city in Tunceli Province, Turkey
  • Also known as: “Dersim”, “Mameki”, “Qalan”, and “Tunceli City”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Batman.

Village
is a village in the Tunceli District, , . The village is populated by Kurds of the Kurêşan tribe and had a population of 66 in 2021. The hamlets of Çatılı, Durak, Erler, Geçimli, Geçit, Haydarlı and Sağ are attached to the village.

Tunceli

Latitude
39.1061° or 39° 6′ 22″ north
Longitude
39.5483° or 39° 32′ 54″ east
Population
34,500
Elevation
903 metres (2,963 feet)
United Nations Location Code
TR TUN
Open location code
8GFX4G4X+C8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26487261
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
298846
Wiki­data ID
Q202195
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Tunceli” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تونجلي”
  • Arabic: “درسيم”
  • Arabic: “طنجالة”
  • Armenian: “Թունջելի”
  • Armenian: “Մամիկի”
  • Asturian: “Tunceli (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Tunceli”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tunceli”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tuncəli”
  • Belarusian: “Тунджэлі”
  • Bengali: “তুঞ্জেলি”
  • Breton: “Tunceli”
  • Bulgarian: “Тунджели”
  • Catalan: “Tunceli”
  • Cebuano: “Tunceli”
  • Central Kurdish: “مامەکی”
  • Central Kurdish: “مامەکیە”
  • Chechen: “Тунджели”
  • Chinese: “Tunceli”
  • Chinese: “通傑利”
  • Chinese: “通杰利”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Tunceli”
  • Czech: “Tunceli”
  • Danish: “Tunceli”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Mamekiye”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Tunceli”
  • Dutch: “Tunceli”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تونجلى”
  • Finnish: “Tunceli”
  • French: “Dêrsim”
  • French: “Mamekiye”
  • French: “Tunceli”
  • Gagauz: “Tunceli”
  • Georgian: “თუნჯელი”
  • German: “Dersim”
  • German: “Tunceli”
  • Gilaki: “تۊنجلي”
  • Greek: “Ντερσίμ”
  • Greek: “Τουντζελί”
  • Greek: “Τούντζελι”
  • Gujarati: “ટ્યૂન્સેલી”
  • Hebrew: “טונג’לי”
  • Hindi: “टुनसेली”
  • Hungarian: “Tunceli (település)”
  • Hungarian: “Tunceli”
  • Indonesian: “Tunceli”
  • Irish: “Tunceli”
  • Italian: “Tunceli”
  • Japanese: “トゥンジェリ”
  • Kannada: “ಟುನ್ಸೆಲಿ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Tunceli”
  • Kazakh: “Тунжелі”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Tunceli”
  • Korean: “툰젤리”
  • Kurdish: “Mamekî”
  • Kurdish: “Mamekîya”
  • Kurdish: “Mamekiye”
  • Kurdish: “Mamikî”
  • Kurdish: “Tunceli”
  • Kurdish: “مامەکی”
  • Latvian: “Tundželi”
  • Lithuanian: “Tundželis”
  • Malay: “Tunceli”
  • Marathi: “टनसेली”
  • Mazanderani: “تونجلی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tunceli”
  • Minangkabau: “Tunceli”
  • Moksha: “Тунджэли”
  • Nauru: “Tunceli”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tunceli”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tunceli”
  • Norwegian: “Tunceli”
  • Ossetian: “Тунджели”
  • Persian: “تونج ایلی”
  • Persian: “تونج‌ایلی”
  • Persian: “تونجلی”
  • Polish: “Tunceli”
  • Portuguese: “Dersim”
  • Portuguese: “Kalan”
  • Portuguese: “Mamiki”
  • Portuguese: “Tunceli”
  • Portuguese: “Tunjeli”
  • Romanian: “Tunceli”
  • Russian: “Тунджели”
  • Scots: “Tunceli”
  • Serbian: “Мамики” (historical)
  • Serbian: “Тунџели”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tunceli”
  • Sinhala: “ටන්චේලි”
  • Slovenian: “Tunceli”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تونجه لی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تونجه‌لی”
  • Spanish: “Dersim”
  • Spanish: “Tunceli”
  • Swahili: “Tunceli”
  • Swedish: “Tunceli”
  • Tajik: “Тунчели”
  • Tajik: “Тунҷели”
  • Talysh: “Tunceli”
  • Talysh: “Tunčeli”
  • Tamil: “தூன்சிலி”
  • Tatar: “Тунҗели”
  • Telugu: “టన్చెలి”
  • Thai: “ทุนเจลี”
  • Turkish: “Dersim”
  • Turkish: “Tunceli Merkez”
  • Turkish: “Tunceli”
  • Udmurt: “Тунджели”
  • Ukrainian: “Тунджелі”
  • Urdu: “تونجیلی”
  • Vietnamese: “Tunceli”
  • Volapük: “Tunceli”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tunceli”
  • Western Mari: “Тунджели”
  • Western Panjabi: “تنجیلی”
  • “Tunceli”

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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 “Tunceli”. Photo: CanTuncelili, CC BY-SA 3.0.