Tatvan

Tatvan
Tatvan
	Overview of Tatvan from Nemrut-Dagi
	Tatvan
	Coordinates: 38°30′08″N 42°16′53″E / 38.50222°N 42.28139°ECoordinates: 38°30′08″N 42°16′53″E / 38.50222°N 42.28139°E
Country	Turkey
Province	Bitlis
Government
• Mayor	Mehmet Emin Geylani (AKP)
• Kaymakam	Mehmet Ali Özkan
Area
• District	1,606.46 km2 (620.26 sq mi)
Elevation	1,690 m (5,540 ft)
Population (2012)
• Urban	67,035
• District	85,490
• District density	53/km2 (140/sq mi)
Post code	13200
Website	www.tatvan.bel.tr

Tatvan (Kurdish: Tetwan‎^[3] Armenian: Դատվան, romanized: Datvan) is a city on the western shore of Lake Van. It is the chief city of Tatvan District within Bitlis Province in eastern Turkey, and has about 96,000 inhabitants. The current Mayor is Mehmet Emin Geylani (AKP).^[4]

Transport[]

The Tatvan Pier railway station, which is the eastern terminus of the railway line between Ankara and Teheran, with freight and passenger trains.^[5] It is connected eastwards to Van, 100 km away, and westwards to the rest of Turkey, by State Road D300. There is also a train ferry across the lake Van.^[5] The ferry was upgraded in 2015.

There is no railway around the lake to Van; it is intended eventually to build one but to date there are no plans. This would actually create an unbroken rail link between Europe and the Indian subcontinent, as Van is effectively the western terminus of the Iranian railway network.

There is a bus station about 500 meters from the train station.^[6]

Climate[]

hideClimate data for Tatvan
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Average high °C (°F)	0.6 (33.1)	1.5 (34.7)	5.1 (41.2)	11.5 (52.7)	17.2 (63.0)	23.3 (73.9)	28.1 (82.6)	28.0 (82.4)	23.8 (74.8)	16.1 (61.0)	8.9 (48.0)	2.9 (37.2)	13.9 (57.1)
Average low °C (°F)	−5.0 (23.0)	−5.5 (22.1)	−2.1 (28.2)	2.8 (37.0)	6.9 (44.4)	10.8 (51.4)	14.5 (58.1)	14.2 (57.6)	10.6 (51.1)	5.7 (42.3)	0.7 (33.3)	−3.2 (26.2)	4.2 (39.6)
Average precipitation mm (inches)	89 (3.5)	107 (4.2)	111 (4.4)	124 (4.9)	79 (3.1)	26 (1.0)	6 (0.2)	6 (0.2)	13 (0.5)	80 (3.1)	108 (4.3)	95 (3.7)	844 (33.2)
Source: Climate-data.org

References[]

^ "Area of regions (including lakes), km²". Regional Statistics Database. Turkish Statistical Institute. 2002. Retrieved 2013-03-05.
^ "Population of province/district centers and towns/villages by districts - 2012". Address Based Population Registration System (ABPRS) Database. Turkish Statistical Institute. Retrieved 2013-02-27.
^ Avcýkýran, Dr. Adem (ed.). "Kürtçe Anamnez, Anamneza bi Kurmancî" (PDF). Tirsik. p. 55. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
^ Şafak, Yeni (2019-05-11). "Bitlis Tatvan Seçim Sonuçları – Tatvan Yerel Seçim Sonuçları". Yeni Şafak (in Turkish). Retrieved 2019-11-06.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b "Transasia Express (Ankara Tehran train)". Rail Turkey En. 2018-10-14. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
^ "Tatvan train station". Rail Turkey En. 2018-10-14. Retrieved 2019-11-06.