Albania
Korçë County
Bashkia Pogradec

Velçan

Velçan is a village and a former municipality in the , southeastern . At the 2015 local government reform it became a subdivision of the municipality .
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  • 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

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
node 728422147
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
781282
Wiki­data ID
Q285899
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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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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 “Velçan”. Photo: Dirk.heldmaier, CC BY-SA 3.0.