Kazan River
The Kazan River, is a Canadian Heritage River located in Nunavut, Canada. The Dene name for the river was Kasba-tue meaning "white partridge river." The name was apparently changed to Kazan in the late 19th century due to the influence of Order of Mary Immaculate missionaries.
- Type: Stream
- Description: watercourse in Nunavut, Canada
- Also known as: “Harvaqtuuq”, “Kazanelven”, and “Rio Kazan”
Kazan River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Nunavut, Northern Canada, Canada, North America
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Latitude
64.04238° or 64° 2′ 33″ north
Longitude
-95.48506° or 95° 29′ 6″ west
Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)
Open location code
96P62GR7+XX
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Kazan River” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Kazan”
- Bulgarian: “Казан”
- Cebuano: “Kazan River”
- Chuvash: “Казан”
- Czech: “Kazan”
- Dutch: “Kazan River”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر كازان”
- French: “rivière Kazan”
- French: “Rivière Kazan”
- German: “Kazan River”
- Irish: “Abhainn Kazan”
- Italian: “Kazan”
- Japanese: “カザン川”
- Lithuanian: “Kazanas (upė)”
- Lithuanian: “Kazanas”
- Mingrelian: “კაზანი (წყარმალუ)”
- Mingrelian: “კაზანი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kazan”
- Norwegian: “Kazan”
- Persian: “کازان ریور”
- Polish: “Kazan (rzeka)”
- Polish: “Kazan”
- Russian: “Казан”
- Serbian: “Казан (река)”
- Serbian: “Казан”
- Spanish: “Río Kazan”
- Swedish: “Kazan River”
- Tajik: “Казан”
- Tajik: “Козон ревир”
- Turkish: “Kazan Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Казан”
- Venetian: “Fiume Kazan”
- Welsh: “Afon Kazan”
- “Kazan”
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Highlights: Big Hips Island and Tanataluk Islands.
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