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Nevsehir
Nevşehir · local name
38.62° N, 34.72° E
- Population
- 75,527
- Natural Earth
- Population rank
- 69 of 76
- Rank by Natural Earth population among the 76 cities of Türkiye in Terratlasia that have a population figure. Terratlasia does not list every city of Türkiye, so this is not a national ranking.
- Province
- Nevsehir Province
- Natural Earth marks this city as the capital of a first-level administrative unit; the province is the one whose boundary contains the city.
- Time zone
- Europe/Istanbul
- Places
- 12
- editorial
Traveler brief
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Practical bearings for Nevsehir, from the same records as the rest of this page.
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Places 12
- Göreme Open Air MuseumA monastic valley of rock-cut churches, their Byzantine frescoes preserved by the dark and the dry air.UNESCOOpen Air Museum
- Derinkuyu Underground CityEighteen stories down: stables, chapels, wine presses and ventilation shafts for twenty thousand people.UNESCOAncient Site
- Uçhisar CastleA rock outcrop hollowed into a fortress, the highest point in Cappadocia and visible from every valley.Castle
- Kaymaklı Underground CityWider and lower than Derinkuyu, with rooms still connected to houses in the village above.UNESCOAncient Site
- Love ValleyThe tallest and most improbable of the fairy chimneys, best seen at first light from the rim.Nature
- Red ValleyIron-stained rock that turns scarlet at sunset, with hidden churches along the walking route.Nature
- PaşabağTwin- and triple-capped cones, one of them hollowed into a hermitage for Saint Simeon.Nature
- Zelve Open Air MuseumThree valleys of cave dwellings inhabited until 1952, when the rock became too unstable.UNESCOOpen Air Museum
- Devrent ValleyNo churches and no houses — only eroded shapes that the guides name after animals.Nature
- AvanosA town on the Kızılırmak where the red clay has been thrown on kick-wheels since the Hittites.Landmark
- ÜrgüpThe regional market town, built where cut-stone houses meet the cave dwellings in the cliff.Landmark
- ÇavuşinAn abandoned cliff village below the Church of St. John the Baptist, one of the oldest in the region.Ancient Site