Kars Province

Kars Province is a province of , located in the northeastern part of the country. It shares part of its closed border with . Its area is 10,193 km2, and its population is 274,829.
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Wikipedia
  • Type: Province with 272,000 residents
  • Description: province in northeastern Turkey
  • Also known as: “Kars”, “Kars (provincia)”, “Kars İli”, “Kars Vilâyeti”, “Kars vilayəti”, “Karsas province”, “Província de Cars”, “Província de Carse”, “Qars”, “Qersê”, “TR-36”, “TRA22”, “TU84”, “ყარსი”, “נפת קארס”, “פרובינציית קארס”, and “محافظة كارس”

Kars Province

Latitude
40.4558° or 40° 27′ 21″ north
Longitude
42.998° or 42° 59′ 53″ east
Population
272,000
Elevation
1,986 metres (6,516 feet)
Open location code
8HG4FX4X+85
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1827515596
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­province
Geo­Names ID
743942
Wiki­data ID
Q83077
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Kars Province” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ካርስ ክልል”
  • Arabic: “قرص”
  • Arabic: “محافظة قارص”
  • Arabic: “ولاية قارص”
  • Arabic: “ولاية قرص”
  • Armenian: “Կարս”
  • Armenian: “Կարսի մարզ (Թուրքիա)”
  • Armenian: “Կարսի մարզ”
  • Asturian: “provincia de Kars”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qars ili”
  • Basque: “Kars probintzia”
  • Belarusian: “Карс”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Карс”
  • Bengali: “কার্স প্রদেশ”
  • Bosnian: “Kars”
  • Breton: “Kars”
  • Bulgarian: “Карс”
  • Catalan: “Província de Kars”
  • Cebuano: “Kars”
  • Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای قەرس”
  • Chinese: “卡尔斯省”
  • Chuvash: “Карс”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Kars”
  • Czech: “Kars”
  • Czech: “Karská provincie”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Qers”
  • Dutch: “Kars”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Kars”
  • Estonian: “Karsi provints”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Kars Praant”
  • Finnish: “Karsin maakunta”
  • French: “Kars”
  • French: “Province de Kars”
  • Georgian: “ყარსის პროვინცია”
  • German: “Kars”
  • German: “Provinz Kars”
  • Greek: “Επαρχία Καρς”
  • Hausa: “Kars Province”
  • Hebrew: “קארס”
  • Hindi: “कार्स प्रांत”
  • Hindi: “कार्स”
  • Hungarian: “Kars”
  • Ido: “Provinco Kars”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Kars”
  • Inupiaq: “Kars”
  • Irish: “Kars”
  • Italian: “Kars”
  • Italian: “Provincia di Kars”
  • Japanese: “カルス県”
  • Javanese: “Provinsi Kars”
  • Kazakh: “Қарс облысы”
  • Kirghiz: “Карс облусу”
  • Korean: “카르스주”
  • Kurdish: “Qers”
  • Latin: “Chorzene”
  • Latvian: “Karsas ils”
  • Macedonian: “Карс”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Kars”
  • Marathi: “कार्स प्रांत”
  • Mazanderani: “قارص اوستان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kars”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kars (Prowins)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kars”
  • Northern Luri: “قارص”
  • Northern Sami: “Kars eanangoddi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kars”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Provinsen Kars”
  • Norwegian: “Kars”
  • Oromo: “Kars Province”
  • Ossetian: “Хъарс”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਰਸ ਸੂਬਾ”
  • Persian: “استان قارص”
  • Polish: “Kars”
  • Portuguese: “Cars”
  • Portuguese: “Carse”
  • Portuguese: “Kars”
  • Pushto: “قارص ولایت”
  • Romanian: “Provincia Kars”
  • Russian: “Карс”
  • Scots: “Kars Province”
  • Serbian: “Карс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kars”
  • Slovenian: “Kars”
  • Somali: “Kars Province”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قارص اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Kars”
  • Spanish: “Província de Kars”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Kars”
  • Swedish: “Kars”
  • Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Kars”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Карс”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Қарс”
  • Tamil: “கார்ஸ் மாகாணம்”
  • Tatar: “Карс иле”
  • Tatar: “Карс өлкәсе”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดคาร์ส”
  • Turkish: “Kars”
  • Turkmen: “Kars”
  • Uighur: “قارس ۋىلايىتى”
  • Ukrainian: “Карс”
  • Urdu: “صوبہ قارص”
  • Urdu: “قارص صوبہ”
  • Uzbek: “Kars”
  • Vietnamese: “Kars”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kars”
  • Welsh: “Kars”
  • Western Mari: “Карс”
  • Western Panjabi: “صوبہ کارس”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡尔斯省”
  • Yue Chinese: “卡爾斯省”
  • “Kars ili”

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