Kaniv
Kaniv is a city in Cherkasy Raion, Cherkasy Oblast, central Ukraine. The city rests on the Dnieper River, and is one of the main inland river ports on the Dnieper.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 23,800 residents
- Description: town and administrative center of Kanivsky District of Cherkasy Oblast in central Ukraine
- Also known as: “Kánev” and “Kaniów”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St. George’s Cathedral, Kaniv and Музей Народно-декоративного мистецтва.
St. George’s Cathedral, Kaniv
Church
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dormition St. George's Cathedral or St. George's Cathedral is a church in Kaniv, Ukraine, originally built in the pre-Mongol period, making it the oldest building in Cherkasy Oblast.
Музей Народно-декоративного мистецтва
Museum
Photo: Leila H, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Музей Народно-декоративного мистецтва is a museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Keleberda and Leplyavo.
Keleberda
Village
Photo: Євгенія Яніш, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Keleberda is a village, which is situated 7 km east of Kaniv.
Leplyavo
Village
Photo: Maxim Gavrilyuk, GFDL.
Leplyavo is a village, which is situated 7 km northeast of Kaniv.
Hryshchyntsi
Village
Photo: Oleksandr Malyon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hryshchyntsi is a village, which is situated 9 km northwest of Kaniv.
Kaniv
- Categories: city of regional significance of Ukraine, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Cherkasy Raion, Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude
49.7551° or 49° 45′ 18″ northLongitude
31.46108° or 31° 27′ 40″ eastPopulation
23,800Elevation
85 metres (279 feet)United Nations Location Code
UA ZUNOpen location code
8GXHQF46+2COpenStreetMap ID
node 497690126OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Kaniv” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كانيف”
- Armenian: “Կանև (քաղաք, Ուկրաինա)”
- Armenian: “Կանև”
- Azerbaijani: “Kanev”
- Basque: “Kaniv”
- Belarusian: “Канеў”
- Belarusian: “Каніў”
- Catalan: “Kàniv”
- Cebuano: “Kaniv”
- Chechen: “Канев”
- Chinese: “卡尼夫”
- Crimean Tatar: “Kaniv”
- Croatian: “Kaniv”
- Czech: “Kaněv”
- Czech: “Kaniv”
- Danish: “Kaniv”
- Dutch: “Kaniv”
- Estonian: “Kaniv”
- Finnish: “Kaniv”
- French: “Kaniv”
- Galician: “Kaniv”
- Georgian: “კანევი”
- Georgian: “კანივი”
- German: “Kanew”
- German: “Kaniów”
- German: “Kaniw”
- Greek: “Κάνιβ”
- Greek: “Κάνιου”
- Hebrew: “קניב”
- Hungarian: “Kanyiv”
- Interlingue: “Kaniv”
- Irish: “Kaniv”
- Italian: “Kaniv”
- Japanese: “カニウ”
- Korean: “카니우”
- Latin: “Kaniovia”
- Latvian: “Kaņiva”
- Lithuanian: “Kanivas”
- Moksha: “Канив”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kaniv”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kaniv”
- Norwegian: “Kaniv”
- Ossetian: “Канев”
- Persian: “کانیف”
- Polish: “Kaniów”
- Portuguese: “Kaniv”
- Romanian: “Kaniv”
- Russian: “Канев”
- Serbian: “Канив”
- Slovenian: “Kaniv”
- South Azerbaijani: “کانیف”
- Spanish: “Kaniv”
- Spanish: “Kániv”
- Swedish: “Kaniv”
- Tatar: “Канев”
- Tatar: “Канив”
- Thai: “กานิว”
- Turkish: “Kaniv”
- Ukrainian: “Канів”
- Upper Sorbian: “Kaniw”
- Uzbek: “Kaniv”
- Vietnamese: “Kaniv”
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