Guinea
Faranah
Faranah Prefecture

Faranah

Faranah is a town and sub-prefecture in central , lying by the River Niger. As of 2014 it had a population of 78,108 people. The town is mainly inhabited by the Malinke people.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Faranah Airport.

Aerodrome
is an airport serving the city of Faranah in . The airport is 2 kilometres west of the city, across the . The Faranah VOR/DME and Faranah non-directional beacon are located 1.1 nautical miles north-northeast of the airport.

Faranah

Latitude
10.0425° or 10° 2′ 33″ north
Longitude
-10.7408° or 10° 44′ 27″ west
Population
70,200
Elevation
433 metres (1,421 feet)
IATA airport code
FAA
United Nations Location Code
GN FAA
Open location code
7C2F27R5+XM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1717489366
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2421273
Wiki­data ID
Q597843
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Satellite Map

Discover Faranah from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Faranah” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فارانا”
  • Arabic: “فارانه”
  • Armenian: “Ֆարանա”
  • Basque: “Faranah”
  • Belarusian: “Фарана”
  • Bengali: “ফারানা”
  • Bulgarian: “Фарана”
  • Catalan: “Faranah”
  • Cebuano: “Faranah”
  • Chinese: “法拉納”
  • Chinese: “法拉纳”
  • Danish: “Faranah”
  • Dutch: “Faranah”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فارانا”
  • Esperanto: “Faranah”
  • Finnish: “Faranah”
  • French: “Faranah”
  • Fulah: “Farana”
  • German: “Faranah”
  • Greek: “Φαράνα”
  • Gujarati: “ફરાનાહ”
  • Hebrew: “פאראנה”
  • Hindi: “फरानाह”
  • Indonesian: “Faranah”
  • Italian: “Faranah”
  • Japanese: “ファラナ”
  • Kannada: “ಫರಾನಾ”
  • Korean: “파라나”
  • Latvian: “Farana”
  • Lithuanian: “Farana”
  • Malay: “Faranah”
  • Marathi: “फरानह”
  • N'Ko: “ߝߙߊߣߊ߫߫”
  • Northern Frisian: “Faranah”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Faranah”
  • Persian: “فرانه”
  • Polish: “Faranah”
  • Portuguese: “Faraná”
  • Portuguese: “Faranah”
  • Romanian: “Faranah”
  • Russian: “Фарана”
  • Sinhala: “ෆරානහ්”
  • Slovenian: “Faranah”
  • Spanish: “Faranah”
  • Swedish: “Faranah”
  • Tamil: “பாராநஹ்”
  • Telugu: “ఫారానా”
  • Thai: “ฟารานาฮ์”
  • Turkish: “Faranah”
  • Ukrainian: “Фарана”
  • Urdu: “فاراناہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Faranah”

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