Kankan
Kankan is the largest city in Guinea in land area, and the second largest in population, with a population of 410,542 people as at the Census of 1 July 2025.
- Type: City with 191,000 residents
- Description: city in Guinea
- Also known as: “Nabaya (welcomes land)”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Camp Soundiata Keita.
Kankan
- Categories: human settlement, administrative territorial entity, and locality
- Location: Kankan, Kankan Region, Haute Guinee, Guinea, West Africa, Africa
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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
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Kankan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كانكان”
- Arabic: “كنكان”
- Asturian: “Kankan”
- 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”
- Estonian: “Kankan”
- Finnish: “Kankan”
- French: “Kankan”
- Fulah: “Kankan”
- German: “Kankan”
- Greek: “Κανκάν”
- Gujarati: “કાંકન”
- Hebrew: “קאנקאן”
- Hindi: “कानकान”
- 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”
- Silesian: “Kankan (mjasto)”
- Silesian: “Kankan”
- 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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