Tacna

Tacna is a department of Peru. It is the southernmost department of the country, bordering and . It is administered by a regional government. Its capital city is .
Photo: Frank R 1981, CC0.
  • Type: State with 289,000 residents
  • Description: department of Peru
  • Also known as: “Departament de Tacna”, “Departamento Tacna”, “Departma Tacna”, “Department of Tacna”, “Free Tacna”, “Negeri Tacna”, “PE-TAC”, “Regio Tacnense”, “Region de Tacna”, “Región de Tacna”, “regione di Tacna”, “Tacna Department”, “Tacna Libre”, “Tacna Regio”, “Tacna region”, “Tacna Region”, “تاکنا ریجن”, “టక్నా ప్రాంతం”, “タクナ”, “タクナ郡”, “塔克納區”, “塔克納區域”, and “塔克纳区”
  • Neighbors:

Tacna

Latitude
-17.6667° or 17° 40′ south
Longitude
-70.3333° or 70° 20′ west
Population
289,000
Elevation
1,599 metres (5,246 feet)
Open location code
57JF8MM8+8M
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Tacna” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ታክና”
  • Arabic: “إقليم تاكنا”
  • Aragonese: “Departamento de Tacna”
  • Aymara: “Takna Jach’a Suyu”
  • Aymara: “Taqna jach’a suyu”
  • Aymara: “Taqna jacha suyu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tacna”
  • Belarusian: “Рэгіён Такна”
  • Belarusian: “Такна”
  • Bengali: “তাকনা অঞ্চল”
  • Bulgarian: “Такна”
  • Catalan: “Regió de Tacna”
  • Cebuano: “Tacna”
  • Chinese: “塔克納大區”
  • Chinese: “塔克纳大区”
  • Czech: “Tacna”
  • Danish: “Tacna”
  • Dutch: “Tacna”
  • Esperanto: “Departemento Tacna”
  • Estonian: “Tacna piirkond”
  • Finnish: “Tacnan alue”
  • French: “Tacna”
  • Galician: “Departamento de Tacna”
  • Georgian: “ტაკნა”
  • Georgian: “ტაკნის რეგიონი”
  • German: “Region Tacna”
  • German: “Tacna”
  • Greek: “Τάκνα”
  • Gujarati: “ટાક્ના પ્રાંત”
  • Hausa: “Tacna”
  • Hindi: “टैक्ना क्षेत्र”
  • Hindi: “ताकना विभाग”
  • Hungarian: “Tacna megye”
  • Indonesian: “Region Tacna”
  • Italian: “Regione di Tacna”
  • Italian: “Tacna”
  • Japanese: “タクナ県”
  • Javanese: “Tacna”
  • Kannada: “ಟಕ್ನಾ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
  • Kazakh: “Такна”
  • Kirghiz: “Такна”
  • Korean: “타크나주”
  • Ladino: “Tacna”
  • Latin: “Regio Tacnensis”
  • Latvian: “Taknas departaments”
  • Lithuanian: “Taknos departamentas”
  • Macedonian: “Такна”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Tacna”
  • Marathi: “टाक्ना प्रदेश”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tacna Khu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tacna”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tacna-regionen”
  • Norwegian: “Tacna”
  • Oromo: “Tacna”
  • Panjabi: “ਟਕਨਾ”
  • Persian: “منطقه تاکنا”
  • Polish: “Region Tacna”
  • Portuguese: “Departamento de Tacna”
  • Portuguese: “Tacna”
  • Pushto: “تاکنا”
  • Quechua: “Taqna suyu”
  • Quechua: “Taqna Suyu”
  • Romanian: “Tacna”
  • Russian: “Такна”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tacna (departman)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tacna”
  • Sinhala: “ටක්නා කලාපය”
  • Sinhala: “ටක්නා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, පේරු”
  • Slovenian: “Departamento de Tacna”
  • Somali: “Tacna”
  • Spanish: “Departamento de Tacna”
  • Swahili: “Tacna”
  • Swedish: “Tacna”
  • Tajik: “Такна”
  • Tamil: “டாகின பகுதி”
  • Tatar: “Такна”
  • Telugu: “టాక్నా ప్రాంతం”
  • Thai: “แคว้นตักนา”
  • Turkish: “Tacna Bölge”
  • Turkish: “Tacna Bölgesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Такна”
  • Urdu: “تاکنا علاقہ”
  • Uzbek: “Tacna”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu vựcTacna”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tacna”
  • Western Armenian: “Թաքնա տարածաշրջան”
  • Western Panjabi: “ٹیکنا”
  • Wu Chinese: “塔克纳大区”
  • “Tacna”

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