Kawkaban

Kawkaban is a small village to the west of in the . Kawkaban has about 1,710 residents and an elevation of 2,927 metres.
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  • Type: Village with 1,710 residents
  • Description: village in ‘Amran Governorate, Yemen
  • Also known as: “Haukaban”, “Kaukaban”, “Kaukabān”, and “Kaukahan”
Photo: mwanasimba, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shibam Kaukaban and Khalaqah.

Town
Photo: yeowatzup, CC BY 2.0.
Shibam Kawkaban is a double town in Shibam Kawkaban District, Al Mahwit Governorate, , located 38 km west-northwest of , the national capital.

Village
is a village and corresponding 'uzlah in Hamdan District of , . The 10th-century writer al-Hamdani mentioned it in his Sifat Jazirat al-Arab, but it is absent from most other medieval and early modern historical sources. is situated 3½ km east of Kawkaban.

Kawkaban

Latitude
15.5005° or 15° 30′ 2″ north
Longitude
43.9016° or 43° 54′ 6″ east
Population
1,710
Elevation
2,927 metres (9,603 feet)
Open location code
7H75GW22+6M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1226375772
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
73958
Wiki­data ID
Q2262291
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Kawkaban” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كوكبان”
  • Catalan: “Kawkaban”
  • Cebuano: “Kawkabān”
  • Dutch: “Kawkaban”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوكبان”
  • Finnish: “Kawkaban”
  • French: “Kawkaban”
  • German: “Kawkaban”
  • Hebrew: “כוכבאן”
  • Irish: “Kawkaban”
  • Italian: “Kawkaban”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kawkaban”
  • Persian: “کوکبان”
  • Russian: “Каукабан”
  • Turkish: “Kevkeban”
  • Ukrainian: “Кеукебан”

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