Araks
Araks, known as Nerkin Karkhun and Sharifabad until 1946, is a village in the eastern part of the Armavir Province of Armenia, specifically in the Araks Municipality.- Type: Village with 1,740 residents
- Description: village in Armavir Province of Armenia
- Also known as: “Araks, Armenia”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Haykashen and Koçkıran.
Metsamor
Village
Metsamor is a village in the Armavir Province of Armenia. Metsamor is situated 2½ km northwest of Araks.
Araks
- Categories: village in Armenia and locality
- Location: Araks Municipality, Armavir Province, Armenia, Caucasus, Asia
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Latitude
40.05339° or 40° 3′ 12″ north
Longitude
44.30734° or 44° 18′ 26″ east
Population
1,740
Elevation
837 metres (2,746 feet)
Open location code
8HG63834+9W
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Araks” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أراكس- أرمينيا”
- Armenian: “Arak’s”
- Armenian: “Araqs”
- Armenian: “Արաքս (Էջմիածնի տարածաշրջան)”
- Armenian: “Արաքս”
- Armenian: “Ներքին Ղարխուն”
- Azerbaijani: “Aşağı Qarxun”
- Belarusian: “Аракс”
- Cebuano: “Arak’s”
- Chechen: “Аракс”
- Chinese: “Araks”
- Chinese: “阿拉克斯”
- Dutch: “Araks”
- French: “Araks”
- Georgian: “არაქსი”
- Greek: “Αράκς”
- Italian: “Arak’s”
- Italian: “Araks”
- Italian: “Nerkin Gharkun”
- Italian: “Nerkin Karkhun”
- Italian: “Nizhniy Karkhun”
- Malay: “Araks, Echmiadzin”
- Malay: “Araks”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Araks”
- Persian: “آراکس، واغارشاپات”
- Persian: “آراکس”
- Polish: “Araks (Wagharszapat)”
- Polish: “Araks”
- Romanian: “Araks, Armavir”
- Russian: “Аракс”
- Scots: “Araks, Echmiadzin”
- Scots: “Araks”
- Swedish: “Araks”
- Turkish: “Araks”
- Turkish: “Aşağı Karkun”
- Ukrainian: “Аракс”
- Uzbek: “Araks”
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