Sazan Island

Sazan is an in the Adriatic Sea. The largest of Albania's islands, it is a designated military exclusion zone; it lies in a strategically important location between the Strait of Otranto and the mouth of the , which marks the border between the Adriatic and Ionian seas.
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: island in Albania
  • Also known as: “Island of Saseno”, “Ostrvo Saseno”, “Saseno Island”, “Sason”, “Sasseno”, “Sazan”, and “Sazegne”
  • Address: VLORË

Sazan Island

Latitude
40.49407° or 40° 29′ 39″ north
Longitude
19.27878° or 19° 16′ 44″ east
Elevation
344 metres (1,129 feet)
Wheelchair access
no
Open location code
8FGXF7VH+JG
Open­Street­Map ID
way 10228601
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­coastline
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­island
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
3184206
Wiki­data ID
Q733645
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Western Armenian—“Sazan Island” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Ishulli i Sazanit”
  • Albanian: “Ishulli Sazanit”
  • Albanian: “Sazan”
  • Albanian: “Sazani”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Σασώ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Σάσων”
  • Arabic: “سازان”
  • Armenian: “Սազանի”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sazan”
  • Bambara: “Sazan”
  • Basque: “Sazan”
  • Breton: “Sazan”
  • Bulgarian: “Сазани”
  • Catalan: “Saseno”
  • Catalan: “Saso”
  • Catalan: “Sazan”
  • Cebuano: “Ishulli i Sazanit”
  • Chinese: “萨赞岛”
  • Chinese: “薩贊島”
  • Croatian: “Sazan”
  • Croatian: “Sazen”
  • Czech: “Sazan”
  • Danish: “Sazan”
  • Dutch: “Saseno”
  • Dutch: “Sazan”
  • Dutch: “Sazani”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سازان ايسلاند”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سازان”
  • Esperanto: “Insulo Sazano”
  • Finnish: “Sazan”
  • French: “Saseno”
  • French: “Sazan”
  • Galician: “Illa de Sazan”
  • German: “Saseno”
  • German: “Sazan”
  • German: “Sazani”
  • Greek: “Σάζενο”
  • Greek: “Σάσενο”
  • Greek: “Σάσων”
  • Hebrew: “האי סזן”
  • Hungarian: “Sazan-sziget”
  • Italian: “Saseno”
  • Japanese: “サザン島”
  • Japanese: “サセーノ島”
  • Kazakh: “Сазани (арал)”
  • Kazakh: “Сазани”
  • Korean: “사잔섬”
  • Latin: “Saso”
  • Lithuanian: “Sazanis”
  • Macedonian: “Сажен”
  • Macedonian: “Сазан”
  • Malayalam: “സസാൻ ദ്വീപ്”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sasan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Saseno”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sazan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sazani”
  • Norwegian: “Sazan”
  • Persian: “جزیره سازان”
  • Polish: “Sazan”
  • Polish: “Sazanit”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha Sazan”
  • Portuguese: “Sazan”
  • Romanian: “Insula Sazan”
  • Romanian: “Sazan”
  • Romanian: “Sazani”
  • Russian: “Сазани”
  • Russian: “Сазанский остров”
  • Russian: “Сазено”
  • Russian: “Сасено”
  • Sardinian: “Saseno”
  • Serbian: “Сазан”
  • Slovak: “Sazan”
  • Slovenian: “Sazan”
  • Spanish: “Isla de Sazan”
  • Swedish: “Sasan”
  • Swedish: “Saseno”
  • Swedish: “Saso”
  • Swedish: “Sazan”
  • Swedish: “Sazani”
  • Thai: “ซาซัน”
  • Turkish: “Sazan Adası”
  • Ukrainian: “Сазані”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Sazan”
  • Western Armenian: “Սասոն”

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