List of volcanoes in Turkey
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This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in Turkey
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| Name | Elevation | Location | Last eruption | |
| meters | feet | Coordinates | ||
| Acigol-Nevsehir Acigol-Nevsehir Acıgöl-Nevşehir is a volcano in Turkey with an elevation of .It is a caldera volcano about 7 by 8 km wide and is traversed by the national highway from Acıgöl to Nevşehir.... |
1689 | 5541 | 38.57°N 34.52°E | Holocene |
| Mount Ararat Mount Ararat Mount Ararat is a snow-capped, dormant volcanic cone in Turkey. It has two peaks: Greater Ararat and Lesser Ararat .The Ararat massif is about in diameter... |
5137 | 16,854 | 39.70°N 44.28°E | 1840 |
| Erciyes Dagi Mount Erciyes Mount Erciyes is a massive stratovolcano located 25 km to the south of Kayseri in Turkey.Erciyes is the highest mountain in central Anatolia, with its summit reaching... |
3916 | 12,848 | 38.52°N 35.38°E | 253 BC |
| Girekol | - | - | 39.17°N 43.33°E | Holocene |
| Göllü Dag | 2143 | 7031 | 38.25°N 34.57°E | Holocene |
| Hasan Dagi Mount Hasan Mount Hasan is an inactive stratovolcano in Aksaray province, Turkey. With an altitude of 3,253 m , it ranks as the second highest mountain of central Anatolia... |
3253 | 10,672 | 38.13°N 34.17°E | 620 BC |
| Karaca Dağ Karaca Dag Karaca is a shield volcano located in eastern Turkey. According to Der Spiegel of either 6 March or 3 June 2006, the Max Planck Institute for Breeding Research in Cologne has discovered that the genetically common ancestor of 68 contemporary types of cereal still grows as a wild plant on the slopes... |
1957 | 6421 | 37.67°N 39.83°E | |
| Karadag Karadag, Karaman - Geography :The crater of the volcano which is now a lava plain, is approximatelly north of Karaman at with an altitude of . The peak of the mountain is east of this plain and its altitude is . - Geography :The crater of the volcano which is now a lava plain, is approximatelly north of... |
2271 | 7450 | 37.25°N 33.08°E | |
| Karapinar Field Karapinar Field Karapınar is a volcanic field located in central Turkey, near the city of Karapınar. The basaltic Karapınar volcanic field consists of five cinder cones, two lava fields and several explosion craters and maars. The 300-m-high Meke Dağı, surrounded by the Meke Golu crater lake, is one of the largest... |
1302 | 4272 | 37.67°N 33.65°E | 6200 BC |
| Kars Plateau | 3000 | 9842 | 40.75°N 42.90°E | Unknown |
| Kula (volcano) Kula (volcano) Kula is a volcanic field located in western Turkey. Kula field consists of a broad area of cinder cones and maars. It is the westernmost volcano of Turkey.- References :*... |
750 | 2461 | 38.58°N 28.52°E | Holocene |
| Nemrut Dagi Nemrut (volcano) Nemrut is a dormant volcano in Eastern Turkey, close to Lake Van, at .The volcano is named after King Nimrod who is said to have ruled this area in about 2100 BC.- Description :... |
2948 | 9672 | 38.65°N 42.23°E | 1692 |
| Süphan Dagi Mount Süphan Mount Süphan , is a stratovolcano located in eastern Turkey, immediately north of Lake Van. It is the second highest volcano in Turkey, after the mount Ararat.-External links:*... |
4158 | 13,642 | 38.92°N 42.82°E | Holocene |
| Tendürek Dagi Mount Tendürek Tendürek is a shield volcano located in the Ağrı and Van provinces of eastern Turkey, close to the borders with Iran. The elongated volcano rises above the Doğubeyazıt plain, south of Mount Ararat. The last known eruption was a gas and ash eruption in 1855... |
3584 | 11,758 | 39.33°N 43.83°E | 1855 |