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Kankan

Kankan

Kankan is the largest city in 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 about 555 kilometres east of the national capital .
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  • Type: City with 191,000 residents
  • Description: city in Guinea
  • Also known as: “Nabaya (welcomes land)”
Photo: Lancine.kounfantoh.fofana, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Kankan

Latitude
10.3835° or 10° 23′ 1″ north
Longitude
-9.3069° or 9° 18′ 25″ west
Population
191,000
Elevation
381 metres (1,250 feet)
IATA airport code
KNN
United Nations Location Code
GN KNN
Open location code
7C2G9MMV+C6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5724319639
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2419992
Wiki­data ID
Q874317
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Kankan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كانكان”
  • Basque: “Kankan”
  • Belarusian: “Канкан (Гвінэя)”
  • Belarusian: “Канкан”
  • Bengali: “খানখান”
  • Bulgarian: “Канкан”
  • Catalan: “Kankan”
  • Cebuano: “Kankan”
  • Chinese: “坎坎”
  • Chinese: “康康”
  • Croatian: “Kankan”
  • Czech: “Kankan”
  • Danish: “Kankan”
  • Dutch: “Kankan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كانكان”
  • Esperanto: “Kankan”
  • Finnish: “Kankan”
  • French: “Kankan”
  • Fulah: “Kankan”
  • German: “Kankan”
  • Greek: “Κανκάν”
  • Gujarati: “કાંકન”
  • Hebrew: “קאנקאן”
  • Hindi: “कनकन”
  • Hungarian: “Kankan”
  • Indonesian: “Kankan”
  • Irish: “Kankan”
  • Italian: “Kankan”
  • Japanese: “カンカン”
  • Kannada: “ಕಂಕಾನ್”
  • Korean: “캉칸”
  • Latvian: “Kankana”
  • Lithuanian: “Kankanas”
  • Macedonian: “Канкан”
  • Malay: “Kankan”
  • Marathi: “काकण”
  • Mongolian: “Канкан”
  • N'Ko: “ߞߊ߲ߞߊ߲߫”
  • N'Ko: “ߣߊ߬ߓߊ߰ߦߊ߫”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kankan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kankan”
  • Norwegian: “Kankan”
  • Polish: “Kankan”
  • Portuguese: “Cancã”
  • Portuguese: “Kankan”
  • Romanian: “Kankan”
  • Russian: “Канкан”
  • Sinhala: “කන්කන්”
  • Spanish: “Kankan”
  • Swahili: “Kankan”
  • Swedish: “Kankan”
  • Tamil: “மோப்டி”
  • Telugu: “కన్కన్”
  • Thai: “แคนคูน”
  • Turkish: “Kankan”
  • Ukrainian: “Канкан”
  • Urdu: “کانکان”
  • Vietnamese: “Kankan”
  • Western Frisian: “Kankan”

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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 “Kankan”. Photo: Lancine.kounfantoh.fofana, CC BY-SA 4.0.