Kankan Region

Kankan Region is a region of located in the east of the country. It is the largest region of Guinea by area, covering an area of 72,145 km2; and it had a population of 4,110,215 at the Census on 1 July 2025.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Kankan Airport.

Aerodrome
is an airport serving , capital of the Kankan Region in . It is 7 kilometres northeast of the city, 2 kilometres south of the village of Diankana. is situated 6 km north of Kankan Region.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kankan and Sub-prefecture of karfamoriah.

Photo: Lancine.kounfantoh.fofana, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is the largest city in in land area, and the second largest in population, with a population of 410,542 people as at the Census of 1 July 2025.

Town
Karfamoria is a town and sub-prefecture in the in the Kankan Region of eastern . As of 2014 it had a population of 24,858 people.

Kankan Region

Latitude
10.4° or 10° 24′ north
Longitude
-9.25° or 9° 15′ west
Population
1,970,000
Elevation
384 metres (1,260 feet)
Open location code
7C2GCQ22+22
Geo­Names ID
8335087
Wiki­data ID
Q870191
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Satellite Map

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

From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Kankan Region” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ካንካን ክልል”
  • Arabic: “إقليم كانكان”
  • Arabic: “إقليم كنكان”
  • Armenian: “Կանկան”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kankan bölgəsi”
  • Basque: “Kankango eskualdea”
  • Belarusian: “Канкан”
  • Belarusian: “Рэгіён Канкан”
  • Bengali: “কানকান অঞ্চল”
  • Breton: “Kankan”
  • Bulgarian: “Канкан”
  • Catalan: “Regió de Kankan”
  • Cebuano: “Kankan Region”
  • Chinese: “康康大区”
  • Chinese: “康康大區”
  • Danish: “Kankan Region”
  • Danish: “Region Kankan”
  • Dutch: “Kankan”
  • Finnish: “Kankanin alue”
  • French: “Kankan”
  • French: “La région de Kankan”
  • French: “Region de Kankan”
  • French: “Région de Kankan”
  • Galician: “Rexión de Kankan”
  • German: “GN-K”
  • German: “Kankan”
  • German: “Region Kankan”
  • Greek: “Κανκάν”
  • Gujarati: “કાંકન પ્રદેશ”
  • Hausa: “Yankin Kankan”
  • Hebrew: “קאנקאן (מחוז)”
  • Hebrew: “קאנקאן”
  • Hindi: “कांकन प्रदेश”
  • Indonesian: “Region Kankan”
  • Indonesian: “Wilayah Kankan”
  • Interlingua: “Kankan (region)”
  • Interlingua: “Kankan”
  • Italian: “regione di Kankan”
  • Italian: “Regione di Kankan”
  • Japanese: “カンカン州”
  • Javanese: “Wilayah Kankan”
  • Kannada: “ಕಂಕಾನ್ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
  • Karekare: “Kankan”
  • Kazakh: “Қанқан аймағы”
  • Kirghiz: “Канкан чокусу”
  • Korean: “캉칸주”
  • Latvian: “Kankanas reģions”
  • Lithuanian: “Kankano regionas”
  • Malay: “Kankan Region”
  • Marathi: “काकण प्रदेश”
  • N'Ko: “ߞߊ߲ߞߊ߲߫ ߕߌ߲߬ߞߎߘߎ߲”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kankan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kankan”
  • Norwegian: “Kankan”
  • Oromo: “Naannoo Kankan”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਨਕਾਨ ਖੇਤਰ”
  • Persian: “ناحیه کانکان”
  • Polish: “Kankan”
  • Portuguese: “Cancã”
  • Portuguese: “Kankan”
  • Pushto: “د کانکان سیمه”
  • Romanian: “Regiunea Kankan”
  • Russian: “Канкан”
  • Sinhala: “කන්කන් කලාපය”
  • Somali: “Gobolka Kankan”
  • Spanish: “Kankan”
  • Spanish: “Región de Kankan”
  • Swahili: “Mkoa wa Kankan”
  • Swedish: “Kankan Region”
  • Swedish: “Kankan”
  • Tajik: “Минтақаи Қанқан”
  • Tamil: “கங்கன் பகுதி”
  • Tatar: “Канкан регионы”
  • Telugu: “కంకన్ ప్రాంతం”
  • Thai: “กานกาน”
  • Turkish: “Kankan Bölgesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Канкан”
  • Urdu: “کانکان ریجن”
  • Urdu: “کانکان علاقہ”
  • Uzbek: “Qanqan mintaqasi”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu vực Kankan”
  • Wu Chinese: “康康大区”

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