Velçan
Velçan is a village and a former municipality in the Korçë County, southeastern Albania. At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality Pogradec.- Type: Village with 2,550 residents
- Description: village and former municipality of Albania
- Also known as: “Komuna e Velcanit” and “Velçan i Mokrës”
- Address: BASHKIA POGRADEC
Velçan
- Categories: Communes of Albania and locality
- Location: Bashkia Pogradec, Korçë County, Albania, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
40.9541° or 40° 57′ 15″ north
Longitude
20.4617° or 20° 27′ 42″ east
Population
2,550
Elevation
1,295 metres (4,249 feet)
Open location code
8GG2XF36+JM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Waray—“Velçan” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Komuna Velçan”
- Albanian: “Njësia administrative Velçan”
- Cebuano: “Komuna e Velçanit”
- Dutch: “Velçan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ڤيلكان”
- French: “Velçan”
- Hungarian: “Velçan”
- Hungarian: “Velçani”
- Italian: “Velçan”
- Macedonian: “Велчани”
- Malay: “Velçan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Velçan”
- Persian: “ولچن”
- Portuguese: “Velçan”
- Spanish: “Velçan”
- Swedish: “Komuna e Velçanit”
- Turkish: “Velçan”
- Uzbek: “Velçan”
- Vietnamese: “Velçan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Velçan”
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