Tunceli
Tunceli is a city in the mountains of Eastern Anatolia, 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.
- Type: City with 34,500 residents
- Description: central district and city in Tunceli Province, Turkey
- Also known as: “Dersim”, “Dêrsim”, “Kalan”, “Mameki”, “Mamekîya”, “Mamiki”, “Mamikî”, “Qalan”, “Tunceli (distritu)”, “Tunceli City”, “Tunceli Merkez”, “تونج ایلی”, “درسيم”, and “مامەکیە”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Batman.
Tunceli
- Categories: district of Turkey, municipality, and locality
- Location: Tunceli, Tunceli Province, Eastern Anatolia, Turkey, Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Europe
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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)
UN/LOCODE
TR TUN
Open location code
8GFX4G4X+C8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Western Panjabi—“Tunceli” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ቱንጀሊ”
- Arabic: “تونجلي”
- Arabic: “طنجالة”
- Armenian: “Թունջելի”
- Armenian: “Մամիկի”
- Asturian: “Tunceli”
- Azerbaijani: “Tunceli”
- Azerbaijani: “Tuncəli”
- Belarusian: “Тунджэлі”
- Bengali: “তুঞ্জেলি”
- Bengali: “তুনজেলি”
- Breton: “Tunceli”
- Bulgarian: “Тунджели”
- Catalan: “Tunceli”
- Cebuano: “Tunceli”
- Central Kurdish: “مامەکی”
- Chechen: “Тунджели”
- Chinese: “通傑利”
- Chinese: “通杰利”
- Crimean Tatar: “Tunceli”
- Czech: “Tunceli”
- Danish: “Tunceli”
- Dimli (individual language): “Mamekiye”
- Dutch: “Tunceli”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تونجلى”
- Esperanto: “Tunceli”
- Finnish: “Tunceli”
- French: “Tunceli”
- Gagauz: “Tunceli”
- Georgian: “თუნჯელი”
- German: “Tunceli”
- Gilaki: “تۊنجلي”
- Greek: “Ντερσίμ”
- Greek: “Τουντζελί”
- Greek: “Τούντζελι”
- Gujarati: “ટ્યૂન્સેલી”
- Hausa: “Tunceli”
- Hebrew: “טונג’לי”
- Hindi: “टुनसेली”
- Hindi: “तुनजेली”
- Hungarian: “Tunceli (település)”
- Hungarian: “Tunceli”
- Indonesian: “Tunceli”
- Irish: “Tunceli”
- Italian: “Tunceli”
- Japanese: “トゥンジェリ”
- Javanese: “Tunceli”
- Kannada: “ಟುನ್ಸೆಲಿ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Tunceli”
- Kazakh: “Тунджели”
- Kazakh: “Тунжелі”
- Kinyarwanda: “Tunceli”
- Kirghiz: “Тунджели”
- Korean: “툰젤리”
- Kurdish: “Mamekî”
- 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”
- Oromo: “Tunceli”
- Ossetian: “Тунджели”
- Panjabi: “ਤੁਨਜੇਲੀ”
- Persian: “تونجایلی”
- Persian: “تونجلی”
- Polish: “Tunceli”
- Portuguese: “Tunceli”
- Portuguese: “Tunjeli”
- Pushto: “تونجلي”
- Romanian: “Tunceli”
- Russian: “Тунджели”
- Scots: “Tunceli”
- Serbian: “Мамики” (historical)
- Serbian: “Тунџели”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tunceli”
- Sinhala: “ටන්චේලි”
- Slovenian: “Tunceli”
- Somali: “Tunceli”
- South Azerbaijani: “تونجه لی”
- South Azerbaijani: “تونجهلی”
- Spanish: “Tunceli”
- Swahili: “Tunceli”
- Swedish: “Tunceli”
- Tajik: “Тунджели”
- Tajik: “Тунчели”
- Tajik: “Тунҷели”
- Talysh: “Tunceli”
- Talysh: “Tunčeli”
- Tamil: “தூன்சிலி”
- Tatar: “Тунджели”
- Tatar: “Тунҗели”
- Telugu: “టన్చెలి”
- Thai: “ทุนเจลี”
- Turkish: “Tunceli”
- Udmurt: “Тунджели”
- Ukrainian: “Тунджелі”
- Urdu: “تونجیلی”
- Uzbek: “Tunceli”
- Vietnamese: “Tunceli”
- Volapük: “Tunceli”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tunceli”
- Western Mari: “Тунджели”
- Western Panjabi: “تنجیلی”
- “Tunceli”
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