Yucatán & the South
Quintana Roo
Benito Juárez Municipality

Cancún

Cancún is a popular Caribbean tourist destination on the northeast tip of 's Yucatán Peninsula, in , which also is called the Mexican Caribbean.
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  • Type: City with 889,000 residents
  • Description: city of Quintana Roo, Mexico
  • Also known as: “Cancoon”, “Cancun”, “Cancun, Mexico”, and “Cancun, Quintana Roo”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Estadio Andrés Quintana Roo and Centro Educativo Monteverde.

Stadium
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The Estadio Olímpico Andrés Quintana Roo is a 18,844 seat stadium in Cancún, , . It is the home field of Expansión MX’s Cancún F.C., and was formerly the home field of Ascenso MX's Atlante F.C.

School
Monteverde International School is a private school in Cancún, . It serves preschool through high school. Cecilia Alcántara founded the school in the northern hemisphere summer of 1996.

Cancún

Latitude
21.1527° or 21° 9′ 10″ north
Longitude
-86.8426° or 86° 50′ 33″ west
Population
889,000
Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)
IATA airport code
CUN
United Nations Location Code
MX CUN
Open location code
76HM5534+3X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5876942206
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3531673
Wiki­data ID
Q8969
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Cancún” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كانكون”
  • Armenian: “Կանկուն”
  • Asturian: “Cancún”
  • Basque: “Cancún”
  • Bavarian: “Cancún”
  • Belarusian: “Канкун”
  • Bengali: “কানকুন”
  • Bengali: “ক্যাংকুন”
  • Breton: “Cancún”
  • Bulgarian: “Канкун”
  • Burmese: “ကင်န်ကွန်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Cancun”
  • Cebuano: “Cancún”
  • Central Kurdish: “کانکۆن”
  • Chinese: “Cancún”
  • Chinese: “坎昆”
  • Chinese: “港觀”
  • Croatian: “Cancún”
  • Czech: “Cancún”
  • Danish: “Cancún”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Cancún”
  • Dutch: “Cancun”
  • Dutch: “Cancún”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كانكون”
  • Esperanto: “Cancún”
  • Estonian: “Cancún”
  • Finnish: “Cancún”
  • French: “Cancun”
  • French: “Cancún”
  • Galician: “Cancún”
  • Georgian: “კანკუნი”
  • German: “Cancun”
  • German: “Cancún”
  • Greek: “Κανκούν”
  • Gujarati: “કાન્કુન”
  • Hausa: “Cancun”
  • Hebrew: “קנקון”
  • Hindi: “कान्कुन”
  • Hungarian: “Cancún”
  • Ido: “Cancún”
  • Iloko: “Cancun”
  • Iloko: “Cancún”
  • Indonesian: “Cancun”
  • Indonesian: “Cancún”
  • Interlingua: “Cancún”
  • Irish: “Cancun”
  • Italian: “Cancún”
  • Japanese: “カンクン”
  • Kalaallisut: “Cancún”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ಯಾಂಕುನ್”
  • Kikuyu: “Cancún”
  • Kirghiz: “Канкун”
  • Korean: “칸쿤”
  • Korean: “캉쿤”
  • Ladino: “Cancún”
  • Latin: “Cancún”
  • Latvian: “Kankuna”
  • Lithuanian: “Kankunas”
  • Lombard: “Cancún”
  • Macedonian: “Канкун”
  • Malay: “Cancun”
  • Maltese: “Cancun”
  • Maltese: “Cancún”
  • Marathi: “कान्कुन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cancún”
  • Mingrelian: “კანკუნი”
  • Moksha: “Канкун”
  • Northern Sami: “Cancún”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cancún”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cancún”
  • Norwegian: “Cancún”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cancún”
  • Ossetian: “Канкун”
  • Persian: “کانکون٬ کینتانا رو”
  • Persian: “کانکون”
  • Polish: “Cancún”
  • Portuguese: “Cancun”
  • Portuguese: “Cancún”
  • Quechua: “Cancún”
  • Romanian: “Cancún”
  • Russian: “Канкун”
  • Scots: “Cancún”
  • Serbian: “Канкун”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cancún, Quintana Roo”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cancún”
  • Sicilian: “Cancún”
  • Sinhala: “කැන්කන්”
  • Slovak: “Cancún”
  • Slovenian: “Cancún”
  • Spanish: “Cancún (Benito Juárez)”
  • Spanish: “Cancún (Quintana Roo)”
  • Spanish: “Cancún”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad Cancún”
  • Swahili: “Cancún, Quintana Roo”
  • Swahili: “Cancún”
  • Swedish: “Cancún (ort i Mexiko)”
  • Swedish: “Cancún”
  • Swiss German: “Cancún”
  • Tagalog: “Cancún”
  • Tamil: “கான்குன்”
  • Tatar: “Kankun”
  • Tatar: “Канкун”
  • Telugu: “క్యాన్కున్”
  • Thai: “กังกุน”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Cancún”
  • Turkish: “Cancun”
  • Turkish: “Cancún”
  • Twi: “Cancún”
  • Twi: “Kankun”
  • Ukrainian: “Канкун”
  • Urdu: “کانکون”
  • Venetian: “Cancún”
  • Vietnamese: “Cancún”
  • Vlax Romani: “Cancun”
  • Volapük: “Cancún”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cancun”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cancún”
  • Wu Chinese: “坎昆”
  • Yakut: “Канкун”
  • Yue Chinese: “港觀”
  • “Cancún”

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