Van

Demographic figures from TurkStat. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

WAN or Wan may refer to:

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Züli Aladağ

Turkish-German film director of Kurdish ancestry (born 1968)

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Nur Tatar

Turkish taekwondo athlete (born 1992)

Ruhi Su

Turkish country music singer (1912–1985)

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Bayram Olgun

Turkish association football player (born 1990)

Ferit Melen

Prime Minister of Turkey (1906–1988)

Hüseyin Çelik

Turkish statesperson (born 1959)

Mkrtich Khrimian

Catholicoi of Armenia (1820–1907)

Gurgen Mahari

Armenian writer and poet (1903–1969)

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Sami İzcican

Turkish association football player (born 1983)

Vardan Ajemian

theatral director and actor (1905–1977)

Fatih Altaylı

Turkish journalist (born 1962)

Osman Nuri-Asan oğlu Aqçoqraqlı

Crimean Tatar writer, journalist, historian, archaeologist, ethnographer, and teacher

Varazdat Harutyunyan

Armenian architect (1909-2008)

Armenak Yekarian

Armenian revolutionary (1870-1925)

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Karo Zakarian

Armenian conductor and composer (1895–1967)

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Yeghishe Derderian of Jerusalem

Armenian Patriarchs of Jerusalem (1910–1990)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Van

• Tuşba
  1.3 mi away · pop. 163,320
• Gürpınar
  12.3 mi away · pop. 36,133
• Özalp
  34 mi away · pop. 68,491
• Muradiye
  39.2 mi away · pop. 50,247
• Bahçesaray
  41.1 mi away · pop. 13,936
• San Salvo
  1523.6 mi away · pop. 20,016
• Vasto
  1524.7 mi away · pop. 41,087
• Lentella
  1526.2 mi away · pop. 768
• Cupello
  1526.7 mi away · pop. 4,415
• Monteodorisio
  1527.4 mi away · pop. 2,402
• Dogliola
  1528.4 mi away · pop. 415
• Tufillo
  1528.9 mi away · pop. 564

Browse all places in Van →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Van

Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh · 1914

The Body Keeps the Score

Bessel van der Kolk · 2014

Destroy Me

Tahereh Mafi · 2012

Van Gogh

Federico Zeri · 1937

Children of Time

Adrian Tchaikovsky · 2015

Lust for Life

Irving Stone · 1934

The Polar Express Gift Set

Chris Van Allsburg · 1985

Rip Van Winkle

Washington Irving · 1850

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