Bitlis is a city in southeastern Turkey, seat of both Bitlis District and Bitlis Province, with a population of 53,023 as of 2021. It sits at an elevation of 1,545 meters in the steep-sided valley of the Bitlis River, a tributary of the Tigris, 15 kilometers from Lake Van, and its local economy rests mainly on agriculture along with limited leatherworking, tobacco processing and textile dyeing.
Facts
Elevation (m) Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Bitlis (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationInfobox: population_totalQuote, Infobox: population_total
53023
2. Bitlis (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 38.4, longitude 42.116667
P2044 (elevation above sea level)
elevation 1500 m
- In Group: Cities of Western Asia (World), Wikipedia infobox, country field
View the Source3. GeoNames: Bitlis - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 321025
38.40115 42.10784 P PPLA TR 13 7732206 53023 1494 Europe/Istanbul
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 1494 m
View the Source 4. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 38.25, 42.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 38.25, 42.25
38.25 42.25 Csa
Wikidata: Bitlis
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