Southern Russia
North Caucasus
Kabardino-Balkaria

Baksan

Baksan is a town in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, , located 24 kilometers northwest of on the left bank of the Baksan River. Population: 60,445 ; 36,860 ; 35,805 ; 28,767 .
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  • Type: Town with 37,800 residents
  • Description: human settlement in Baksan Urban Okrug, Kabardino-Balkar Republic, Russia
  • Also known as: “Baksanskie” and “Bakssan”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dygulybgey and Psychokh.

Town
Photo: Chereck, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a rural locality under the administrative jurisdiction of the town of republic significance of Baksan in the Kabardino-Balkar Republic, .

Village
Photo: Chereck, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village, which is situated 4 km north of Baksan.

Village
Photo: KBR-chik, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village, which is situated 6 km west of Baksan.

Baksan

Latitude
43.68206° or 43° 40′ 55″ north
Longitude
43.53443° or 43° 32′ 4″ east
Population
37,800
Elevation
453 metres (1,486 feet)
United Nations Location Code
RU BAK
Open location code
8HM5MGJM+RQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 93701882
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
579574
Wiki­data ID
Q104538
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Baksan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “باكسان”
  • Armenian: “Բակսան”
  • Azerbaijani: “Baksan”
  • Belarusian: “Баксан”
  • Catalan: “Baksan”
  • Cebuano: “Baksan”
  • Chechen: “Баксан”
  • Chinese: “Baksan”
  • Chinese: “巴克桑”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Baksan (şeer)”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Baqsan”
  • Czech: “Baksan”
  • Danish: “Baksan”
  • Dutch: “Baksan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باكسان”
  • Esperanto: “Baksan”
  • Finnish: “Baksan”
  • French: “Baksan”
  • Georgian: “ბაქსანი (ქალაქი)”
  • Georgian: “ბაქსანი”
  • German: “Baksan”
  • Hebrew: “בקסאן”
  • Hungarian: “Bakszan”
  • Ido: “Baksan”
  • Ido: “Baxan”
  • Irish: “Baksan”
  • Italian: “Baksan”
  • Kabardian: “Бэхъсэн”
  • Kalmyk: “Баксан балһсн”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Басхан”
  • Korean: “박산”
  • Latvian: “Baksana”
  • Lithuanian: “Baksanas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Baksan (siâⁿ)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Baksan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Baksan”
  • Norwegian: “Baksan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Baksan”
  • Ossetian: “Баксан”
  • Ossetian: “Пахсæн”
  • Persian: “باکسان”
  • Polish: “Baksan”
  • Russian: “Баксан”
  • Russian: “Бакса́н”
  • Russian: “Кучмазукино”
  • Russian: “Старая Крепость”
  • Serbian: “Баксан”
  • Slovak: “Baksan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “باکسان”
  • Swedish: “Baksan”
  • Tagalog: “Baksan”
  • Tajik: “Баксан”
  • Talysh: “Baksan”
  • Tatar: “Баксан (шәһәр)”
  • Tatar: “Баксан”
  • Turkish: “Baksan”
  • Ukrainian: “Баксан”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Baksan”
  • Urdu: “باکسان”
  • Veps: “Baksan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Baksan”

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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 “Baksan”. Photo: Baksik07, CC BY-SA 4.0.