Kars
Kars is a city in Eastern Anatolia with a population of 91,500 in 2022. The main reason to visit is the Armenian ruined city of Ani, and Kars town itself has several attractions.
- Type: City with 290,000 residents
- Description: central district and city in Kars Province, Turkey
- Also known as: “Corzene”, “Gars”, “Ghars”, “Jimbo la Kars”, “K’ałak”, “Kapc”, “Kars (distritu)”, “Kars City”, “Kars Merkez”, “Karuts”, “Łars”, “Qersê”, “Vanand”, “Կարս քաղաք”, “Ղարս”, “Ղարս քաղաք”, “কার্স্”, and “ಕರ್ಸ್”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Kars Museum and Church of the Holy Apostles.
Kars
- Categories: municipality and locality
- Location: Kars, Kars Province, Eastern Anatolia, Turkey, Eastern Mediterranean Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.6071° or 40° 36′ 26″ north
Longitude
43.0948° or 43° 5′ 41″ east
Population
290,000
Elevation
1,767 metres (5,797 feet)
IATA airport code
KSY
UN/LOCODE
TR KSY
Open location code
8HG5J34V+RW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Abkhazian to Yue Chinese—“Kars” goes by many names.
- Abkhazian: “Ҟарс”
- Amharic: “ካርስ”
- Arabic: “قارص”
- Arabic: “قرص”
- Armenian: “Կարս”
- Asturian: “Kars”
- Azerbaijani: “Qars”
- Basque: “Kars”
- Belarusian: “Карс”
- Bengali: “কার্স”
- Bulgarian: “Карс”
- Catalan: “Kars”
- Cebuano: “Kars”
- Central Kurdish: “قەرس”
- Chechen: “Карс”
- Chinese: “卡尔斯”
- Chinese: “卡爾斯”
- Croatian: “Kars”
- Czech: “Kars”
- Danish: “Kars”
- Dimli (individual language): “Qers”
- Dutch: “Kars”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كارس”
- Esperanto: “Kars”
- Estonian: “Kars”
- Finnish: “Kars”
- French: “Kars”
- Gagauz: “Kars”
- Galician: “Kars”
- Georgian: “ყარსი”
- German: “Kars”
- Gilaki: “قارص”
- Greek: “Καρς”
- Gujarati: “કાર્સ”
- Hausa: “Birnin Kars”
- Hausa: “Kars”
- Hebrew: “קארס”
- Hindi: “कार्स”
- Hungarian: “Kars”
- Indonesian: “Kars, Turki”
- Indonesian: “Kars”
- Irish: “Kars”
- Italian: “Kars”
- Japanese: “カルス”
- Javanese: “Kars”
- Kannada: “ಕಾರ್ಸ್”
- Kazakh: “Қарс”
- Kinyarwanda: “Kars”
- Kirghiz: “Карс”
- Korean: “카르스”
- Kurdish: “Qers”
- Kurdish: “قەرس”
- Lak: “Къарс”
- Latvian: “Karsa”
- Lithuanian: “Karsas”
- Macedonian: “Карс”
- Malay: “Kars, Turki”
- Malay: “Kars”
- Maori: “Kā”
- Marathi: “कार्स”
- Mazanderani: “قارص”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kars”
- Minangkabau: “Kars”
- Moksha: “Карс”
- Nauru: “Kars”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kars”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kars”
- Norwegian: “Kars”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kars”
- Oromo: “Kars”
- Ossetian: “Хъарс”
- Panjabi: “ਕਾਰਸ”
- Persian: “قارص”
- Polish: “Kars”
- Pontic: “Καρς”
- Portuguese: “Cars”
- Portuguese: “Carse”
- Portuguese: “Kars”
- Pushto: “کارس”
- Romanian: “Kars”
- Russian: “Карс”
- Scots: “Kars”
- Serbian: “Kars”
- Serbian: “Карс”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kars”
- Sinhala: “කාර්ස්”
- Slovak: “Kars”
- Slovenian: “Kars”
- Somali: “Kars”
- South Azerbaijani: “قارص”
- Spanish: “Kars”
- Swahili: “Kars”
- Swedish: “Kars”
- Swiss German: “Kars”
- Tajik: “Қарс”
- Tajik: “Қорс”
- Tamil: “கார்ஸ்”
- Tatar: “Карс”
- Telugu: “కేర్స్”
- Thai: “การ์ส”
- Thai: “คาร์ส”
- Turkish: “Kars”
- Udmurt: “Карс”
- Ukrainian: “Карс”
- Urdu: “قارص”
- Uzbek: “Kars”
- Uzbek: “Qars”
- Venetian: “Kars”
- Vietnamese: “Kars”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kars, Turkeya”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kars”
- Welsh: “Kars”
- Western Armenian: “Կարս”
- Western Mari: “Карс”
- Western Panjabi: “کارس”
- Wu Chinese: “卡尔斯”
- Yue Chinese: “卡爾斯”
- “Kars”
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