Southern Armenia
Syunik Province
Kapan Municipality

Kapan

Kapan is a town in southeast , serving as the administrative centre of the and also as the provincial capital of .
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  • Type: Town with 41,500 residents
  • Description: town in Armenia
  • Also known as: “Ghap’an”, “Kafan”, “Kafin”, “Katan”, “Madan”, and “Zangezur”
  • Historically known as: “Ghapan”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gandzasar.

Stadium
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Kapan Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Kapan, the capital of , . It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of and Syunik.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gomaran and Achanan.

Village
is a village in the of the in .

Village
is a village in the of the in . In 1988-1989 Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan settled in the village. is situated 4 km northeast of Kapan.

Locality
is a village in the of . is situated 3½ km southeast of Kapan.

Kapan

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
United Nations Location Code
AM KPN
Open location code
8HF86C53+2X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 210231290
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
174875
Wiki­data ID
Q31583
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Kapan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كابان”
  • Armenian: “Kapan”
  • Armenian: “Կապան”
  • Armenian: “Ղափան”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qafan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qapan”
  • Belarusian: “Капан”
  • Belarusian: “Кафан”
  • Bulgarian: “Капан”
  • Catalan: “Kapan”
  • Cebuano: “Kapan (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Kapan”
  • Central Kurdish: “کاپان”
  • Chechen: “Капан”
  • Chinese: “Kapan”
  • Chinese: “卡凡”
  • Chinese: “卡潘”
  • Croatian: “Kapan”
  • Czech: “Kapan”
  • Danish: “Kapan”
  • Dutch: “Kapan”
  • Esperanto: “Kapan”
  • Estonian: “Ghaphan”
  • Estonian: “Kapan”
  • Finnish: “Kapan”
  • French: “Kapan”
  • Georgian: “კაპანი”
  • Georgian: “ღაფანი”
  • German: “Kapan”
  • German: “Капан”
  • German: “Կապան”
  • Greek: “Καπάν”
  • Hebrew: “קפאן”
  • Hindi: “कापान”
  • Hungarian: “Kapan”
  • Indonesian: “Kapan”
  • Italian: “Kapan”
  • Japanese: “カパン”
  • Kazakh: “Капан”
  • Korean: “카판”
  • Kurdish: “Kapan”
  • Latvian: “Kapana”
  • Lithuanian: “Kafanas”
  • 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”
  • Ossetian: “Капан”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਪਾਨ”
  • Persian: “قاپان”
  • Persian: “کاپان”
  • Polish: “Kapan”
  • Portuguese: “Capã”
  • Portuguese: “Kapan”
  • Romanian: “Kapan”
  • Russian: “Капан”
  • Scots: “Kapan”
  • Scots: “Կապան”
  • Serbian: “Капан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kapan”
  • Sinhala: “කපාන්, ආර්මේනියාව”
  • Slovak: “Ghapan”
  • Slovak: “Kafan”
  • Slovak: “Kapan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کاپان”
  • Spanish: “Kapan”
  • Spanish: “Kapán”
  • Spanish: “La Universidad Estatal de Ingenieria de Armenia”
  • Spanish: “La Universidad Estatal de Ingeniería de Armenia”
  • Swahili: “Kapan”
  • Swedish: “Ghapan”
  • Swedish: “Kafan”
  • Swedish: “Kapan”
  • Tajik: “Капан”
  • Thai: “กาปัน”
  • Turkish: “Kapan, Ermenistan”
  • Turkish: “Kapan”
  • Turkish: “Qafan”
  • Ukrainian: “Капан”
  • Ukrainian: “Кафан”
  • 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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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 “Kapan”. Photo: Dracula, Public domain.