Eastern Anatolia
Kars Province
Kars

Kars

Kars is a city in 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.
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  • Type: City with 290,000 residents
  • Description: central district and city in Kars Province, Turkey
  • Also known as: “Kapc”, “Kars City”, and “Vanand”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kars Museum and Church of the Holy Apostles.

Museum
Photo: Jaba1977, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The was opened in 1963 in the of Kars, . The structure was first built as an Armenian church under the Bagratuni dynasty by Abbas in 930–937.

Mosque
Photo: Herbert Frank, CC BY 2.0.
The Cathedral of Kars, also known as the Holy Apostles Church is a former Armenian Apostolic church in Kars, eastern . Built in the mid-10th century by the Armenian Bagratid King Abas I, it was converted into a mosque in 1579.

Photo: Sailko, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Castle of Kars is a former fortification located in Kars, . It is also known under the name İç Kale. It was first built during the rule of the Bagratid dynasty and then rebuilt in 1153 by Firuz Akay Commissioned by Sultan Melik Izzeddin Saltuk II.

Kars

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
United Nations Location Code
TR KSY
Open location code
8HG5J34V+RW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26486777
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
743952
Wiki­data ID
Q127063
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Yue Chinese—“Kars” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Ҟарс”
  • Arabic: “قارص”
  • Arabic: “قرص”
  • Arabic: “كارس”
  • Armenian: “Կարս քաղաք”
  • Armenian: “Կարս”
  • Armenian: “Ղարս քաղաք”
  • Armenian: “Ղարս”
  • Asturian: “Kars (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Kars”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kars”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qars”
  • Basque: “Kars”
  • Belarusian: “Карс”
  • Bengali: “কার্স”
  • Bengali: “কার্স্”
  • 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”
  • Hebrew: “קארס”
  • Hindi: “कार्स”
  • Hungarian: “Kars”
  • Indonesian: “Kars, Turki”
  • Indonesian: “Kars”
  • Irish: “Kars”
  • Italian: “Kars”
  • Japanese: “カルス”
  • Kannada: “ಕರ್ಸ್”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾರ್ಸ್”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Kars”
  • Korean: “카르스”
  • Kurdish: “Kars”
  • Kurdish: “Qers”
  • Kurdish: “Qersê”
  • 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”
  • Ossetian: “Карс”
  • Ossetian: “Хъарс”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਰਸ”
  • Persian: “قارص”
  • Polish: “Kars”
  • Pontic: “Καρς”
  • Portuguese: “Cars”
  • Portuguese: “Carse”
  • Portuguese: “Corzene”
  • Portuguese: “Ghars”
  • Portuguese: “K’ałak”
  • Portuguese: “Kars”
  • Portuguese: “Karuts”
  • Portuguese: “Łars”
  • Portuguese: “Qars”
  • Portuguese: “Qers”
  • Portuguese: “Qersê”
  • Romanian: “Kars”
  • Russian: “Карс”
  • Scots: “Kars”
  • Serbian: “Kars”
  • Serbian: “Карс”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kars”
  • Sinhala: “කාර්ස්”
  • Slovak: “Kars”
  • Slovenian: “Kars”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قارص”
  • Spanish: “Kars”
  • Swahili: “Jimbo la Kars”
  • Swahili: “Kars”
  • Swedish: “Kars”
  • Swiss German: “Gars”
  • Swiss German: “Ghars”
  • Swiss German: “Kars”
  • Swiss German: “Qers”
  • Tajik: “Қорс”
  • Tamil: “கார்ஸ்”
  • Tatar: “Карс”
  • Telugu: “కేర్స్”
  • Thai: “Kars”
  • Thai: “การ์ส”
  • Thai: “คาร์ส”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Kars”
  • Turkish: “Kars Merkez”
  • Turkish: “Kars”
  • Udmurt: “Карс”
  • Ukrainian: “Карс”
  • Urdu: “قارص”
  • Uzbek: “Kars”
  • 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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