Metsamor
Metsamor, is a town and urban municipal community in the Armavir Province of Armenia. It is famous for being home to Armenia's Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant, the only nuclear plant in the Transcaucasian region.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Spetsnaz1991, CC BY 2.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mayisyan and Aknalich.
Mayisyan
Village
Mayisyan, is a village in the Armavir Province of Armenia. It was founded as a collective farm and named Sovkhoz No.2. Later it became known as Imeni Beriya, named after Lavrentiy Beria. Mayisyan is situated 2½ km northwest of Metsamor.
Aknalich
Village
Photo: Armineaghayan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Aknalich is a village in the Armavir Province of Armenia. The village is situated on a lake, after which it is named, to the east of Metsamor. Aknalich village is the site of the only Yazidi temple in Armenia. Aknalich is situated 3½ km east of Metsamor.
Mrgashat
Village
Mrgashat, is a major village in the Armavir Province of Armenia. A Bronze Age archaeological site is found near the village. Mrgashat is situated 5 km southwest of Metsamor.
Metsamor
- Type: Town with 8,450 residents
- Description: town in the Armavir Province of Armenia
- Categories: city or town in Armenia and locality
- Location: Metsamor Municipality, Armavir Province, Armenia, Caucasus, Asia
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Latitude
40.14436° or 40° 8′ 40″ northLongitude
44.11921° or 44° 7′ 9″ eastPopulation
8,450Elevation
864 metres (2,835 feet)Open location code
8HG644V9+PMOpenStreetMap ID
node 1240285509OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
823807Wikidata ID
Q1136307
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Metsamor” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “متسامور”
- Armenian: “Mecamor”
- Armenian: “Metsamor”
- Armenian: “Մեծամոր”
- Azerbaijani: “Metsamor AES”
- Azerbaijani: “Metsamor”
- Belarusian: “Мецамор”
- Bulgarian: “Мецамор”
- Catalan: “Metsamor”
- Cebuano: “Metsamor”
- Chechen: “Мецамор”
- Chinese: “Metsamor”
- Chinese: “梅察莫尔”
- Chinese: “美特萨默”
- Czech: “Mecamor”
- Dutch: “Metsamor”
- Esperanto: “Mecamoro”
- Estonian: “Metsamor”
- Finnish: “Metsamor”
- French: “Metsamor”
- Georgian: “მეწამორი”
- German: “Mezamor”
- Greek: “Μετσαμόρ”
- Hebrew: “מסטמור”
- Hungarian: “Mecamor”
- Indonesian: “Metsamor”
- Italian: “Metsamor”
- Japanese: “メツァモル”
- Kurdish: “Mêtsamor”
- Latvian: “Mecamora”
- Lithuanian: “Mecamoras”
- Malay: “Metsamor”
- Malayalam: “മെറ്റ്സമോർ”
- Mazanderani: “متسامور”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Metsamor”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Metsamor”
- Norwegian: “Metsamor”
- Ossetian: “Мецамор”
- Persian: “متسامور”
- Polish: “Mecamor”
- Polish: “Metsamor”
- Romanian: “Mețamor”
- Russian: “Мецамор”
- Scots: “Metsamor”
- Serbian: “Mecamor”
- Serbian: “Мецамор”
- Serbian: “Մեծամոր”
- South Azerbaijani: “متسامور”
- Spanish: “Metsamor”
- Swahili: “Metsamor”
- Swedish: “Metsamor”
- Turkish: “Metsamor”
- Turkish: “Metzamor”
- Ukrainian: “Мецамор”
- Upper Sorbian: “Mecamor”
- Vietnamese: “Metsamor”
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