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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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
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Kankan is the largest city in Guinea in land area, and the third largest in population, with a population of 198,013 people as of 2020. 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 Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Kankan Region” goes by many names.
- 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”
- 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”
- Kannada: “ಕಂಕಾನ್ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
- 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”
- Persian: “ناحیه کانکان”
- Polish: “Kankan”
- Portuguese: “Cancã”
- Portuguese: “Kankan”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Kankan”
- Russian: “Канкан”
- Sinhala: “කන්කන් කලාපය”
- Spanish: “Kankan”
- Spanish: “Región de Kankan”
- Swedish: “Kankan Region”
- Swedish: “Kankan”
- Tamil: “கங்கன் பகுதி”
- Telugu: “కంకన్ ప్రాంతం”
- Thai: “กานกาน”
- Turkish: “Kankan Bölgesi”
- Ukrainian: “Канкан”
- Urdu: “کانکان ریجن”
- Urdu: “کانکان علاقہ”
- Vietnamese: “Khu vực Kankan”
- Wu Chinese: “康康大区”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Balandougou and Karfamoria.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kassa.
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