Kankan Region
Kankan Region is a region of Guinea located in the east of the country. It is the largest region of Guinea by area. The region has five prefectures. It is bordered by the countries of Mali and Côte d'Ivoire and the Guinean regions of Nzérékoré and Faranah.Photo: darrylkeith, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kankan Airport.
Kankan Airport
Aerodrome
Kankan Airport is an airport serving Kankan, capital of the Kankan Region in Guinea. It is 7 kilometres northeast of the city, 2 kilometres south of the village of Diankana. Kankan Airport is situated 6 km north of Kankan Region.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kankan and Sub-prefecture of karfamoriah.
Kankan
Photo: Lancine.kounfantoh.fofana, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kankan is the largest city in Guinea in land area, and the second largest in population, with a population of 410,542 people as of 2026. The city is located in eastern Guinea about 555 kilometres east of the national capital Conakry.
Sub-prefecture of karfamoriah
Town
Karfamoria is a town and sub-prefecture in the Kankan Prefecture in the Kankan Region of eastern Guinea. As of 2014 it had a population of 24,858 people.
Kankan Region
- Type: region of Guinea with 1,970,000 residents
- Description: region of Guinea
- Location: Guinea, West Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Kankan Region” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ካንካን ክልል”
- Arabic: “إقليم كانكان”
- 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”
Localities in the Area
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Guinea: Must-Visit Destinations
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