Kapan
Kapan is a town in southeast Armenia, serving as the administrative centre of the Kapan Municipality and also as the provincial capital of Syunik Province.
Photo: Dracula, Public domain.- Type: Town with 41,500 residents
- Description: town in Armenia
- Also known as: “Ghap’an”, “Ghaphan”, “Kafan”, “Kafanas”, “Kafin”, “Kapan (kapital sa lalawigan)”, “Katan”, “La Universidad Estatal de Ingenieria de Armenia”, “La Universidad Estatal de Ingeniería de Armenia”, “Madan”, “Qapan”, “Zangezur”, “Кафан”, “ღაფანი”, “Ղափան”, “قاپان”, and “卡凡”
- Historically known as: “Ghapan”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Gandzasar Stadium.
Gandzasar Stadium
Stadium
Kapan Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Kapan, the capital of Syunik Province, Armenia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gomaran and Achanan.
Achanan
Village
Achanan is a village in the Kapan Municipality of the Syunik Province in Armenia. Achanan is situated 4 km northeast of Kapan.
Qazançı
Locality
Qazançı is a village in the Zangilan District of Azerbaijan. Qazançı is situated 3½ km southeast of Kapan.
Kapan
- Categories: city or town in Armenia and locality
- Location: Kapan Municipality, Syunik Province, Southern Armenia, Armenia, Caucasus, Asia
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Latitude
39.2076° or 39° 12′ 27″ north
Longitude
46.4049° or 46° 24′ 18″ east
Population
41,500
Elevation
774 metres (2,539 feet)
IATA airport code
YUK
UN/LOCODE
AM KPN
Open location code
8HF86C53+2X
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Wu Chinese—“Kapan” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ካፓን”
- Arabic: “قابان”
- Arabic: “كابان”
- Armenian: “Kapan”
- Armenian: “Կապան”
- Azerbaijani: “Kapan”
- Azerbaijani: “Qafan”
- Basque: “Kapan”
- Belarusian: “Капан”
- Bengali: “কাপান”
- Bulgarian: “Капан”
- Catalan: “Kapan”
- Cebuano: “Kapan”
- Central Kurdish: “کاپان”
- Chechen: “Капан”
- Chinese: “卡潘”
- Croatian: “Kapan”
- Czech: “Kapan”
- Danish: “Kapan”
- Dutch: “Kapan”
- Esperanto: “Kapan”
- Estonian: “Kapan”
- Finnish: “Kapan”
- French: “Kapan”
- Georgian: “კაპანი”
- German: “Kapan”
- Greek: “Καπάν”
- Hausa: “Kapan”
- Hebrew: “קפאן”
- Hindi: “कपान”
- Hindi: “कापान”
- Hungarian: “Kapan”
- Indonesian: “Kapan”
- Italian: “Kapan”
- Japanese: “カパン”
- Javanese: “Kapan”
- Kazakh: “Капан”
- Kazakh: “Қапан”
- Kirghiz: “Капан”
- Korean: “카판”
- Kurdish: “Kapan”
- Latvian: “Kapana”
- Lithuanian: “Kapanas”
- Lower Sorbian: “Kapan”
- Malay: “Kapan”
- Malayalam: “കപാൻ”
- Mazanderani: “کاپان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kapan”
- Mingrelian: “კაპანი”
- Northern Frisian: “Kapan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kapan”
- Norwegian: “Kapan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kapan”
- Oromo: “Kapan”
- Ossetian: “Капан”
- Panjabi: “ਕਪਾਨ”
- Persian: “کاپان”
- Polish: “Kapan”
- Portuguese: “Capã”
- Portuguese: “Kapan”
- Pushto: “کاپان”
- Romanian: “Kapan”
- Russian: “Капан”
- Scots: “Kapan”
- Serbian: “Капан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kapan”
- Sinhala: “කපාන්, ආර්මේනියාව”
- Slovak: “Kapan”
- Somali: “Kapan”
- South Azerbaijani: “کاپان”
- Spanish: “Kapan”
- Spanish: “Kapán”
- Swahili: “Kapan”
- Swedish: “Kapan”
- Tajik: “Капан”
- Tajik: “Қапан”
- Tatar: “Капан”
- Thai: “กาปัน”
- Turkish: “Kapan, Ermenistan”
- Turkish: “Kapan”
- Ukrainian: “Капан”
- Upper Sorbian: “Kapan”
- Urdu: “کاپان”
- Uzbek: “Kapan”
- Vietnamese: “Kapan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kapan”
- Western Armenian: “Կապան”
- Western Frisian: “Kapan”
- Wu Chinese: “卡潘”
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