Van
Van is a city in Eastern Anatolia in Turkey. It's on the eastern shore of Lake Van near the border with Iran, so for Iranians it's an unlikely Reno, a holiday break from their restrictive theocracy.
- Type: City with 1,140,000 residents
- Description: city in Turkey
- Also known as: “Akarere ka Van”, “Berdn Samirama”, “Buana”, “Cauom”, “Dosp”, “Ibã”, “K’alak’n Samiramay”, “Merkez”, “Samiramacém”, “Thospia”, “Tosbe”, “Tospe”, “Tóspia”, “Tuspa”, “Tuşpa”, “Urartu”, “Van (distritu)”, “Van (stad)”, “Van merkez”, “Van, Turkey”, “Vane”, “Ван (город, Турция)”, “Тушпа”, “فان”, “مدينة فان”, “مدينة وان”, and “투쉬파”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Van railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include İpekyolu and Tuşba.
Bostaniçi
Suburb
Bostaniçi is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of İpekyolu, Van Province, Turkey.
Van
- Categories: metropolitan municipality in Turkey, big city, and locality
- Location: Van Province, Eastern Anatolia, Turkey, Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.5009° or 38° 30′ 3″ north
Longitude
43.3946° or 43° 23′ 41″ east
Population
1,140,000
Elevation
1,708 metres (5,604 feet)
IATA airport code
VAN
UN/LOCODE
TR VAN
Open location code
8HC5G92V+9R
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Van” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Vani”
- Amharic: “ቫን”
- Arabic: “وان”
- Armenian: “Վան”
- Asturian: “Van”
- Azerbaijani: “Van”
- Basque: “Van”
- Belarusian: “Ван”
- Bengali: “ভান, তুরস্ক”
- Bengali: “ভান”
- Breton: “Van”
- Bulgarian: “Ван”
- Catalan: “Van”
- Cebuano: “Van”
- Central Kurdish: “وان”
- Chechen: “Ван (гӀала, Туркойчоь)”
- Chechen: “Ван”
- Chinese: “凡城”
- Croatian: “Van (grad)”
- Croatian: “Van”
- Czech: “Van”
- Danish: “Van”
- Dimli (individual language): “Wan”
- Dutch: “Van”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مدينه وان”
- Egyptian Arabic: “وان”
- Esperanto: “Van”
- Estonian: “Van”
- Finnish: “Van”
- French: “Van”
- Gagauz: “Van”
- Galician: “Van, Turquía”
- Galician: “Van”
- Georgian: “ვანი”
- German: “Van”
- Gilaki: “وان”
- Greek: “Βαν”
- Gujarati: “વેન”
- Hausa: “Van”
- Hebrew: “ואן”
- Hindi: “वन”
- Hindi: “वान”
- Hungarian: “Van”
- Ido: “Van”
- Indonesian: “Van, Turki”
- Indonesian: “Van”
- Irish: “Van”
- Italian: “Van”
- Japanese: “ヴァン”
- Javanese: “Van”
- Kannada: “ವಾನ್”
- Kannada: “ವ್ಯಾನ್”
- Kazakh: “Ван”
- Kinyarwanda: “Van”
- Kirghiz: “Ван”
- Korean: “반”
- Kurdish: “Wan”
- Latvian: “Vana”
- Lithuanian: “Vanas”
- Malay: “Van, Turki”
- Malay: “Van”
- Marathi: “व्हॅन”
- Mazanderani: “وان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Van”
- Nepali: “भ्यान, टर्की”
- Nepali: “भ्यान”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Van”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Van i Tyrkia”
- Norwegian: “Van”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Van”
- Oromo: “Van”
- Ossetian: “Ван (сахар)”
- Ossetian: “Ван”
- Pampanga: “Van, Turkey”
- Pampanga: “Van”
- Panjabi: “ਵਾਨ”
- Persian: “وان”
- Polish: “Wan”
- Portuguese: “Vã”
- Portuguese: “Van”
- Pushto: “وان”
- Romanian: “Van, Turcia”
- Romanian: “Van”
- Russian: “Ван”
- Scots: “Van, Turkey”
- Scots: “Van”
- Serbian: “Ван”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Van, Turska”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Van”
- Sinhala: “වැන්”
- Slovak: “Van”
- Slovenian: “Van”
- Somali: “Van”
- South Azerbaijani: “وان”
- Spanish: “Van”
- Swahili: “Van”
- Swedish: “Van, Turkiet”
- Swedish: “Van”
- Swiss German: “Van”
- Tajik: “Ван”
- Talysh: “Van”
- Tamil: “வான், துருக்கி”
- Tamil: “வான்”
- Tatar: “Ван”
- Telugu: “వాన్”
- Thai: “วาน”
- Turkish: “Van”
- Turkmen: “Wan”
- Udmurt: “Ван”
- Ukrainian: “Ван”
- Urdu: “وان، ترکی”
- Uzbek: “Van”
- Venetian: “Van”
- Vietnamese: “Van, Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ”
- Vietnamese: “Van”
- Waray (Philippines): “Van, Turkeya”
- Waray (Philippines): “Van”
- Welsh: “Van, Twrci”
- Welsh: “Van”
- Western Armenian: “Վան”
- Western Mari: “Ван”
- Western Panjabi: “وان”
- Wu Chinese: “凡城”
- Yue Chinese: “凡城”
- “Van”
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