Middle East
Turkey
Ardahan Province

Posof

Posof is a town in of , in the far east of the country, 75 km from the city of and near the border with . It is located in the historical region of Samtskhe.
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  • Type: Town with 6,790 residents
  • Description: district and town of Ardahan, Turkey
  • Also known as: “Diğviri”, “Poshov”, “Posof Ilcesi”, and “Potshovi”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Özbaşı and Uğurca.

Village
is a village in the Posof District, , . Its population is 65.

Village
is a village in the Posof District, , . Its population is 38.

Village
is a village in the Posof District, , . Its population is 41. The former name of village is Samkhula. Samkhula, a Georgian place name, consists of the words sami and khula and means "Three Barns".

Posof

Latitude
41.5084° or 41° 30′ 30″ north
Longitude
42.728° or 42° 43′ 41″ east
Population
6,790
Elevation
1,754 metres (5,755 feet)
Open location code
8HH4GP5H+95
Open­Street­Map ID
node 160352108
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
8631399
Wiki­data ID
Q1004613
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Posof” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بوسخوف”
  • Armenian: “Դիգուր”
  • Asturian: “Posof (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Posof”
  • Catalan: “Posof”
  • Cebuano: “Posof İlçesi”
  • Chechen: “Пософ”
  • Chinese: “Posof”
  • Chinese: “波索夫”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Posof”
  • Dutch: “Posof”
  • Esperanto: “Posof”
  • Finnish: “Posof”
  • French: “Posof”
  • Georgian: “პოსოფი”
  • German: “Posof”
  • Hungarian: “Posof”
  • Indonesian: “Posof”
  • Irish: “Posof”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Posof”
  • Japanese: “ポソフ”
  • Japanese: “ポツホヴィ”
  • Kurdish: “Duxur”
  • Kurdish: “Posof”
  • Kurdish: “پۆسۆف”
  • Lak: “Пософ”
  • Lithuanian: “Posofas”
  • Malay: “Posof”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Posof”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Posof”
  • Norwegian: “Posof”
  • Persian: “پوسوف”
  • Russian: “Пософ”
  • Serbian: “Пософ”
  • Spanish: “Posof”
  • Swahili: “Posof”
  • Tatar: “Пософ”
  • Turkish: “Duğur”
  • Turkish: “Posof İlçesi”
  • Turkish: “Posof”
  • Urdu: “پوسوف”
  • Uzbek: “Posof”
  • Vietnamese: “Posof”
  • Western Mari: “Пософ”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع پوسوف”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Posof”. Photo: Gencoo, Public domain.