Balak
Balak is a village in the Sisian Municipality of the Syunik Province in Armenia. Balak has about 146 residents and an elevation of 1,755 metres.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 146 residents
- Description: village in Syunik Province of Armenia
- Also known as: “Balak, Armenia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Saint Gevorg Church and Spandaryan HPP.
Spandaryan HPP
Power station
Photo: Haik Petrosian, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Vorotan Cascade, or the ContourGlobal Hydro Cascade, is a cascade on the Vorotan River in Syunik Province, Armenia. It was built to produce hydroelectric power and provide irrigation water.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Angeghakot and Shaghat.
Angeghakot
Village
Photo: Soghomon Matevosyan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Angeghakot is a village in the Sisian Municipality of the Syunik Province in Armenia. A large reservoir, the Angeghakot Reservoir, spanning more than the entire length of the village lies to the south.
Shaghat
Village
Photo: Soghomon Matevosyan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Shaghat is a village in the Sisian Municipality of the Syunik Province in Armenia.
Mutsk
Village
Mutsk is a village in the Sisian Municipality of the Syunik Province in Armenia. The Armenian architect, Baghdasar Arzoumanian was born here in 1916. Mutsk is situated 3½ km southwest of Balak.
Balak
- Categories: village in Armenia and locality
- Location: Sisian Municipality, Syunik Province, Armenia, Caucasus, Asia
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Latitude
39.55726° or 39° 33′ 26″ northLongitude
45.93139° or 45° 55′ 53″ eastPopulation
146Elevation
1,755 metres (5,758 feet)Open location code
8HF7HW4J+WHOpenStreetMap ID
node 928448440OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
174954Wikidata ID
Q712648
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Vietnamese—“Balak” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Balak’”
- Armenian: “Balaq”
- Armenian: “Բալաք”
- Azerbaijani: “Balak”
- Chechen: “Балак”
- Chinese: “Balak”
- Dutch: “Balak”
- French: “Balak”
- Georgian: “ბალაქი”
- Italian: “Balak‘”
- Italian: “Balak”
- Malay: “Balak, Armenia”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Balak”
- Persian: “بالاک، ارمنستان”
- Polish: “Balak”
- Russian: “Балак”
- Scots: “Balak, Armenie”
- Scots: “Balak”
- Spanish: “Balak”
- Turkish: “Balak”
- Uzbek: “Balak, Armaniston”
- Uzbek: “Balak”
- Vietnamese: “Balak, Syunik”
- Vietnamese: “Balak”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Balak”. Photo: Violettarmenia, CC BY-SA 3.0.