Posof
Posof is a town in Ardahan Province of Turkey, in the far east of the country, 75 km from the city of Ardahan and near the border with Georgia. It is located in the historical region of Samtskhe.
Photo: Gencoo, Public domain.- Type: Town with 6,790 residents
- Description: district and town of Ardahan, Turkey
- Also known as: “Diğviri”, “Duğur”, “Poshov”, “Posof (distritu)”, “Posof Ilcesi”, “Potshovi”, and “ポツホヴィ”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Özbaşı and Uğurca.
Posof
- Categories: district, sanjak, and locality
- Location: Ardahan Province, Turkey, Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Europe
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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
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Posof” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بوسخوف”
- Armenian: “Դիգուր”
- Asturian: “Posof”
- Catalan: “Posof”
- Cebuano: “Posof İlçesi”
- Chechen: “Пософ”
- 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”
- 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: “Posof İlçesi”
- Turkish: “Posof”
- Urdu: “پوسوف”
- Uzbek: “Posof”
- Vietnamese: “Posof”
- Western Mari: “Пософ”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع پوسوف”
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