Ancash

Ancash is a department of Peru. Located in the country's west, it is bordered by the departments of on the north, and on the east, on the south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west.
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  • Type: State with 1,060,000 residents
  • Description: department of Peru
  • Also known as: “Ancachs”, “Ančaš Područje”, “Áncash Department”, “Áncash megye”, “Ancash Regio”, “Ancash Region”, “Ancashin alue”, “Ankašas”, “Ankašo regionas”, “Departament d’Ancash”, “Departamento Ancash”, “Département d’Ancash”, “Department of Ancash”, “Negeri Ancash”, “PE-ANC”, “Provinces de la Region d’Ancash”, “Provinces de la région d’ancash”, “Regió de Chavín”, “Region d’Ancash”, “Region de Ancash”, “Región de Ancash”, “Región de Áncash”, “regione di Ancash”, “Анкахс”, “ანქაში”, “انكاش”, “انکاش ریجن”, “مقاطعة أنكاش”, and “安卡什区”

Ancash

Latitude
-9.5° or 9° 30′ south
Longitude
-77.75° or 77° 45′ west
Population
1,060,000
Elevation
3,097 metres (10,161 feet)
Open location code
6724G722+22
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1230775088
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
3699674
Wiki­data ID
Q205089
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Ancash” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “አንካሽ”
  • Arabic: “إقليم أنكاش”
  • Aragonese: “Departamento d’Ancash”
  • Armenian: “Անկաշ”
  • Aymara: “Ankashu jach’a suyu”
  • Aymara: “Ankashu Jach’a Suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ancash”
  • Belarusian: “Анкаш”
  • Belarusian: “Рэгіён Анкаш”
  • Bengali: “আনকাশ অঞ্চল”
  • Bosnian: “Ancash”
  • Bulgarian: “Анкаш”
  • Catalan: “Regió d’Ancash”
  • Cebuano: “Ancash”
  • Chinese: “安卡什大区”
  • Chinese: “安卡什大區”
  • Czech: “Ancash”
  • Czech: “Áncash”
  • Danish: “Ancash”
  • Dutch: “Ancash”
  • Dutch: “Áncash”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اقليم انكاش”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Ankaŝo”
  • Finnish: “Ancash”
  • French: “Ancash”
  • French: “Áncash”
  • Galician: “Ancash”
  • Georgian: “ანკაში”
  • Georgian: “ანკაშის რეგიონი”
  • German: “Ancash”
  • German: “Region Ancash”
  • Greek: “Ανκάς”
  • Gujarati: “એન્કેશ પ્રદેશ”
  • Hausa: “Ancash”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז אנקש”
  • Hindi: “आंकाश विभाग”
  • Hindi: “एन्कैश क्षेत्र”
  • Hungarian: “Ancash megye”
  • Indonesian: “Region Ancash”
  • Italian: “Ancash”
  • Italian: “Regione di Ancash”
  • Japanese: “アンカシュ県”
  • Javanese: “Ancash”
  • Kannada: “ಅಂಕಾಶ್ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
  • Kazakh: “Анкаш”
  • Kirghiz: “Анкаш”
  • Korean: “앙카시주”
  • Ladino: “Ancash”
  • Latin: “Regio Ancashensis”
  • Latvian: “Ankašas departaments”
  • Lithuanian: “Ankašo departamentas”
  • Macedonian: “Анкаш”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Ancash”
  • Marathi: “अनकॅश प्रदेश”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ancash Khu”
  • Northern Frisian: “Áncash (Department)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Áncash”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ancash”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ancash-regionen”
  • Norwegian: “Ancash”
  • Oromo: “Ancash”
  • Panjabi: “ਅੰਕਾਸ਼”
  • Persian: “منطقه انکاش”
  • Persian: “ناحیه انکاش”
  • Polish: “Ancash”
  • Polish: “Region Ancash”
  • Portuguese: “Âncache”
  • Portuguese: “Ancash”
  • Pushto: “آنکاش”
  • Quechua: “Anqash suyu”
  • Quechua: “Anqash Suyu”
  • Romanian: “Ancash”
  • Russian: “Анкаш”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Áncash”
  • Sinhala: “ආන්කාශ් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, පේරු”
  • Sinhala: “ආන්කාශ් පළාත”
  • Slovenian: “Ancash”
  • Somali: “Ancash”
  • Spanish: “Ancash”
  • Spanish: “Áncash”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Ancash”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Áncash”
  • Swahili: “Ancash”
  • Swedish: “Ancash”
  • Swedish: “Áncash”
  • Tajik: “Анкаш”
  • Tamil: “அஙகேஷ் பகுதி”
  • Tatar: “Анкаш”
  • Telugu: “అంకాశ్ ప్రాంతం”
  • Thai: “แคว้นอังกัช”
  • Turkish: “Ancash Bölgesi”
  • Turkish: “Áncash Bölgesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Анкаш”
  • Urdu: “انکاش علاقہ”
  • Uzbek: “Ancash”
  • Vietnamese: “Vùng Ancash”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ancash”
  • Western Armenian: “Անքաշ”
  • Western Panjabi: “اینکاش”
  • Wu Chinese: “安卡什大区”
  • “Ancax”

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