Turkey
Eastern Anatolia
Van Province

Van

Van is a city in 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.
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  • Type: City with 1,140,000 residents
  • Description: city in Turkey
  • Also known as: “Thospia”, “Urartu”, and “Van, Turkey”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Van railway station.

Railway station
Photo: Babbsack, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the main railway station in Van, . Up until July 2015, the Trans-Asia Express, from , , stopped at the station. The train would continue to the Van Pier, where passengers would travel to Tatvan via ferry, and the western half of the train would continue to .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include İpekyolu and Tuşba.

Town
is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 956 km2, and its population is 348,046. The district was created at the 2013 reorganisation from part of the former central district of Van, along with the new district .

Town
Photo: Myararat83, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a municipality and district of , . Its area is 1,948 km2, and its population is 163,301. The district was created at the 2013 reorganisation from part of the former central district of Van, along with the new district .

Suburb
is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of , , . Its population is 31,714. Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town in the central district of Van Province.

Van

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
United Nations Location Code
TR VAN
Open location code
8HC5G92V+9R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26480571
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
298117
Wiki­data ID
Q83061
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Van” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Vani”
  • Arabic: “فان”
  • Arabic: “مدينة فان”
  • Arabic: “مدينة وان”
  • Arabic: “وان”
  • Armenian: “Վան”
  • Asturian: “Van (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Van”
  • Azerbaijani: “Van”
  • Basque: “Van”
  • Belarusian: “Ван”
  • Belarusian: “Тушпа”
  • Bengali: “ভান, তুরস্ক”
  • Bengali: “ভান”
  • Breton: “Van”
  • Bulgarian: “Ван”
  • Catalan: “Dosp”
  • Catalan: “Van”
  • Catalan: “Wan”
  • Cebuano: “Van”
  • Central Kurdish: “وان”
  • Chechen: “Ван (гӀала, Туркойчоь)”
  • Chechen: “Ван”
  • Chinese: “Van”
  • Chinese: “凡城”
  • Croatian: “Van (grad)”
  • Croatian: “Van”
  • Czech: “Van”
  • Danish: “Van”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Wan”
  • Dutch: “Van (stad)”
  • 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”
  • 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: “Akarere ka Van”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Van”
  • Korean: “반”
  • Korean: “투쉬파”
  • Kurdish: “Van”
  • 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”
  • Ossetian: “Ван (сахар)”
  • Ossetian: “Ван”
  • Pampanga: “Van, Turkey”
  • Pampanga: “Van”
  • Persian: “وان”
  • Polish: “Wan”
  • Portuguese: “Berdn Samirama”
  • Portuguese: “Buana”
  • Portuguese: “Cauom”
  • Portuguese: “Dosp”
  • Portuguese: “Ibã”
  • Portuguese: “K’alak’n Samiramay”
  • Portuguese: “Samiramacém”
  • Portuguese: “Tosbe”
  • Portuguese: “Tospe”
  • Portuguese: “Tóspia”
  • Portuguese: “Tuspa”
  • Portuguese: “Vã”
  • Portuguese: “Van”
  • Portuguese: “Vane”
  • Portuguese: “Wan”
  • Romanian: “Van, Turcia”
  • Romanian: “Van”
  • Russian: “Ван (город, Турция)”
  • Russian: “Ван”
  • Scots: “Van, Turkey”
  • Scots: “Van”
  • Serbian: “Ван”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Van, Turska”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Van”
  • Sinhala: “වැන්”
  • Slovak: “Van”
  • Slovenian: “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”
  • Telugu: “వాన్”
  • Thai: “Van”
  • Thai: “วาน”
  • Turkish: “Tuşpa”
  • Turkish: “Van merkez”
  • Turkish: “Van”
  • Turkmen: “Wan”
  • Udmurt: “Ван”
  • Ukrainian: “Ван”
  • Urdu: “وان، ترکی”
  • Uzbek: “Van”
  • Venetian: “Van”
  • Vietnamese: “Merkez”
  • 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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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 “Van”. Photo: Bahoz, CC BY-SA 3.0.