Kazan

Kazan is the capital and largest city of , Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the and the Kazanka rivers, covering an area of 425.3 square kilometres, with a population of over 1.3 million residents, and up to nearly 2 million residents in the greater metropolitan area.
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  • Type: City with 1,330,000 residents
  • Description: city in the Republic of Tatarstan, Russia
  • Also known as: “Gazan”, “Kazan’”, “Qassan”, “Quazan”, “городской округ муниципальное образование город Казань Республики Татарстан”, “Ҡаҙан”, “Третья столица России”, “غازان”, “قزان”, and “কাযান”
  • Historically known as: “Kazan‘”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Kul-Sharif mosque and Kazan Conservatory.

Mosque
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
The located in Kazan Kremlin, was reputed to be – at the time of its construction – one of the largest mosques in , and in outside of .

University
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The N.G. Zhiganov Kazan State Conservatory is a higher musical education institution in Kazan, , Russia. The conservatory was founded in 1945 by Soviet Tatar composer Najip Jihanov who was a rector of the institution during 1945-1988.

Railway station
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
Kazan-Passazhirskaya is a railway station in the capital of Tatarstan — Kazan in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Old Tatar Quarter and Yaña Bistä.

Suburb
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The is a historical area in the southern part of the Vakhitovsky district in Kazan, the capital of , Russia. The quarter stretches from northwest to southeast and is located between Lake and the Bolaq channel in the east, the southern intracity railway tracks in the west, the Central Market in the north and Vakhit Square in the south.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Kazan

Latitude
55.7946° or 55° 47′ 41″ north
Longitude
49.1115° or 49° 6′ 41″ east
Population
1,330,000
Elevation
61 metres (200 feet)
Established
1005
IATA airport code
KZN
UN/LOCODE
RU KZN and RU KAZ
Open location code
9H7FQ4V6+VJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27504067
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
551487
Wiki­data ID
Q900
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Kazan” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kazan”
  • Albanian: “Kazani, Tataristan”
  • Albanian: “Kazani”
  • Amharic: “ካዛን”
  • Arabic: “قازان”
  • Armenian: “Կազան”
  • Asturian: “Kazán”
  • Avaric: “Къазан”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kazan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qazan”
  • Balinese: “Kazan”
  • Bashkir: “Ҡазан”
  • Basque: “Kazan”
  • Belarusian: “Казань”
  • Bengali: “কাজান”
  • Bosnian: “Kazanj”
  • Breton: “Kazan”
  • Breton: “Qazan”
  • Bulgarian: “Казан”
  • Burmese: “ကာဇန်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Kazan”
  • Cebuano: “Kazan”
  • Central Kurdish: “کازان”
  • Chechen: “Казань”
  • Chinese: “喀山”
  • Church Slavic: “Каꙁанъ”
  • Chuvash: “Хусан”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Qazan”
  • Croatian: “Kazan”
  • Croatian: “Kazanj”
  • Czech: “Kazaň”
  • Danish: “Kasan”
  • Danish: “Kazan”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kazan”
  • Dutch: “Kazan”
  • Eastern Mari: “Озаҥ”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كازان”
  • Erzya: “Казань ош”
  • Esperanto: “Kazano”
  • Estonian: “Kaasan”
  • Extremaduran: “Kazán”
  • Finnish: “Kazan”
  • French: “Kazan”
  • Galician: “Kazán”
  • Georgian: “ყაზანი”
  • German: “Kasan”
  • Greek: “Καζάν”
  • Guarani: “Kasã”
  • Gujarati: “કઝાન”
  • Hausa: “Kazan”
  • Hebrew: “קאזאן”
  • Hindi: “काज़ान”
  • Hungarian: “Kazán”
  • Hungarian: “Kazany”
  • Icelandic: “Kasan”
  • Icelandic: “Kazan”
  • Ido: “Kazan”
  • Indonesian: “Kazan”
  • Ingush: “Казань”
  • Interlingua: “Kazan”
  • Interlingue: “Kazan”
  • Irish: “Kazan”
  • Italian: “Kazan‘”
  • Italian: “Kazan’”
  • Japanese: “カザン”
  • Javanese: “Kazan”
  • Kalaallisut: “Kazan”
  • Kannada: “ಕಝನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾಜಾ಼ನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Qazan”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Къазан”
  • Kazakh: “Қазан”
  • Kirghiz: “Казан”
  • Komering: “Kazan”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Козань”
  • Komi: “Казан”
  • Korean: “카잔”
  • Kotava: “Kazan”
  • Kurdish: “Kazan”
  • Ladin: “Kasan”
  • Lak: “Къазан”
  • Lao: “ຄາຊານ”
  • Latin: “Casanum”
  • Latvian: “Kazaņa”
  • Lezghian: “Казань”
  • Limburgan: “Kazan”
  • Lithuanian: “Kazanė”
  • Livvi: “Kazani”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Kazan”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kasan”
  • Macedonian: “Казањ”
  • Malay: “Kazan”
  • Malayalam: “കസാൻ”
  • Maltese: “Kazan”
  • Marathi: “कझान”
  • Mazanderani: “کازان”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kazan”
  • Minangkabau: “Kazan”
  • Mingrelian: “ყაზანი”
  • Moksha: “Казань”
  • Mongolian: “Казань”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kasan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kazan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kazan”
  • Norwegian: “Kazan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kazan”
  • Oromo: “Kazan”
  • Ossetian: “Хъазан”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਜ਼ਾਨ”
  • Persian: “قازان”
  • Persian: “کازان”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Kasaan”
  • Polish: “Kazań”
  • Portuguese: “Cazã”
  • Pushto: “قازان”
  • Pushto: “کازان روسیه”
  • Pushto: “کازان”
  • Quechua: “Kazan”
  • Romanian: “Kazan”
  • Romanian: “Казан”
  • Russia Buriat: “Казань”
  • Russian: “Казань”
  • Sango: “Kazan”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱟᱡᱟᱱ”
  • Saraiki: “کازان”
  • Scots: “Kazan”
  • Serbian: “Казањ”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kazanj”
  • Sicilian: “Kazan‘”
  • Sicilian: “Kazan’”
  • Silesian: “Kazań”
  • Sinhala: “කාසන්”
  • Slovak: “Kazaň”
  • Slovenian: “Kazan”
  • Somali: “Kazan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قازان”
  • Southern Altai: “Казан”
  • Spanish: “Kazán”
  • Swahili: “Kazan”
  • Swedish: “Kazan”
  • Tagalog: “Kazan”
  • Tajik: “Қазон”
  • Talysh: “Kazan”
  • Tamil: “கசான்”
  • Tatar: “Qazan”
  • Tatar: “Казан”
  • Telugu: “కజాన్”
  • Thai: “คาซัน”
  • Thai: “คาซาน”
  • Tumbuka: “Kazan”
  • Turkish: “Kazan, Tataristan”
  • Turkish: “Kazan”
  • Turkmen: “Kazan”
  • Tuvinian: “Казань”
  • Twi: “Kazan”
  • Udmurt: “Кузон”
  • Uighur: “قازان”
  • Ukrainian: “Казань”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kazań”
  • Urdu: “قازان”
  • Uzbek: “Qozon”
  • Venetian: “Kazan’”
  • Veps: “Kazan‘”
  • Veps: “Kazan’”
  • Vietnamese: “Kazan”
  • Volapük: “Kazan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kazan”
  • Welsh: “Kazan’”
  • Western Armenian: “Քազան”
  • Western Frisian: “Kazan”
  • Western Mari: “Азан”
  • Western Panjabi: “قازان”
  • Wolof: “Kazan”
  • Wu Chinese: “喀山”
  • Yakut: “Казан”
  • Yiddish: “קאזאן”
  • Yue Chinese: “喀山”
  • “Казањ”

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