Lake Sevan Region
Gegharkunik is a province of Armenia. Its capital and largest city is Gavar. Gegharkunik is inhabited by approximately 209,669 people and the majority are ethnic Armenians.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Sevan and Vardenis.
Sevan
Vardenis
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Vardenis is a town in the Vardenis Municipality of Gegharkunik Province, Armenia. It is in the Masrik River valley, on the territory of the Masrik artesian basin at 2,006 metres above sea level, near the southeastern shores of Lake Sevan.
Shorzha
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Shoghakat is a village in the Shoghakat Municipality of the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia, located near Lake Sevan, northwest of the Artanish Peninsula.
Lake Sevan Region
- Type: State with 216,000 residents
- Description: province of Armenia
- Also known as: “Geġark’unik‘”, “Gegharkunik”, “Gegharkunik Province”, “Gegharkunik Region”, and “Gegharkʼunikʼ”
- Categories: province of Armenia and locality
- Location: Armenia, Caucasus, Asia
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Latitude of center
40.3031° or 40° 18′ 11″ northLongitude of center
45.3757° or 45° 22′ 33″ eastPopulation
216,000Elevation
1,898 metres (6,227 feet)Abbreviation
“GR”OpenStreetMap ID
node 1884053542OpenStreetMap feature
place=stateGeoNames ID
828261Wikidata ID
Q199905
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Lake Sevan Region” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كيغاركونيك”
- Arabic: “محافظة كغاركونيك”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة كغاركونيك”
- Armenian: “Գեղարքունիք”
- Armenian: “Գեղարքունիքի մարզ”
- Armenian: “Գեղարքունիքի Մարզ”
- Azerbaijani: “Geğarkunik mərzi”
- Azerbaijani: “Geğarkunik”
- Basque: “Gegharkunik”
- Belarusian: “Гегаркунік”
- Belarusian: “Марз Гегаркунік”
- Bengali: “গেঘারকুনিক প্রদেশ”
- Bosnian: “Geharkunik”
- Bulgarian: “Гегаркуник”
- Bulgarian: “Гехаркуник”
- Catalan: “Província de Gegharkunik”
- Catalan: “província de Guegharkunik”
- Catalan: “Província de Guegharkunik”
- Cebuano: “Geghark’unik’i Marz”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای گێغارکونیک”
- Chechen: “Гехаркуникан провинци”
- Chinese: “Gegharkunik Séng”
- Chinese: “格加古力省”
- Chinese: “格加尔库尼克州”
- Chinese: “格加爾庫尼克州”
- Chinese: “格加爾庫尼克省”
- Croatian: “Gegharkunik”
- Croatian: “Geharkunik”
- Czech: “Gegharkunik”
- Danish: “Gegharkunik Province”
- Dutch: “Gecharkoenik”
- Dutch: “Gegharkoenik”
- Dutch: “Gegharkunik”
- Esperanto: “Gegharkunik”
- Estonian: “Gegharkhunikhi maakond”
- Finnish: “Geghark’unik‘”
- Finnish: “Geghark’unik’”
- Finnish: “Gegharkunik”
- French: “Geghark’unik‘”
- French: “Gégharkounik”
- French: “Gegharkunik”
- French: “Région du lac Sevan”
- Galician: “Provincia de Gegharkunik”
- Georgian: “გეღარკუნიკი”
- Georgian: “გეღარქუნიქი”
- Georgian: “გეღარქუნიქის ოლქი”
- Georgian: “გეღარქუნიქის პროვინცია”
- German: “AM-GR”
- German: “Geġark̕ownik̕”
- German: “Gegharkunik”
- Greek: “Γκεγκαρκουνίκ”
- Greek: “Γκεγκαρκούνικ”
- Greek: “Περιφέρεια Γκεγαρκουνίκ”
- Gujarati: “ગેઘરક્યુનિક પ્રાંત”
- Hebrew: “מחוז גגהרקוניק”
- Hindi: “गेघारकुनिक प्रांत”
- Hindi: “गेघारकुनिक”
- Hindi: “गेघार्कुनिक प्रांत”
- Hungarian: “Gegarkounik”
- Hungarian: “Gegarkunik tartomány”
- Indonesian: “Geghark’unik‘”
- Indonesian: “Gegharkunik”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Gegharkunik”
- Italian: “Geġark’ownik’”
- Italian: “Geghark’unik‘”
- Italian: “Gegharkunik”
- Italian: “Provincia di Gegharkunik”
- Japanese: “ゲガルクニク地方”
- Kannada: “ಜಿಘಾರ್ಕುನಿಕ್ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
- Korean: “게가르쿠니크주”
- Korean: “게가르쿠닉 주”
- Latvian: “Gegarkunikas marze”
- Latvian: “Gegarkunikas reģions”
- Latvian: “Geharkunikas marze”
- Lezghian: “Гехаркуник марз”
- Lithuanian: “Gegarkuniko sritis”
- Macedonian: “Гегаркуник”
- Macedonian: “Гехаркуник”
- Malay: “Gegharkunik”
- Malay: “Wilayah Gegharkunik”
- Malayalam: “ഗെഘാർകുനിക്”
- Marathi: “गेघरक्युनिक प्रांत”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gegharkunik Séng”
- Mingrelian: “გეღარქუნიქიშ პროვინცია”
- Mongolian: “Гехаркуник аймаг”
- Nepali: “गेघार्कुनिक प्रान्त”
- Northern Frisian: “Gegharkunik”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gegharkunik”
- Norwegian: “Gegharkunik”
- Ossetian: “Гегаркуник”
- Ossetian: “Гехаркуник”
- Persian: “استان گغارکونیک”
- Persian: “گغارکونیک”
- Persian: “منطقه دریاچه سوان”
- Polish: “Gegharkunik”
- Polish: “Prowincja Gegharkunik”
- Portuguese: “Geghark’unik‘”
- Portuguese: “Gegharkunik”
- Portuguese: “Guelarcunique”
- Portuguese: “Província de Gegharkunik”
- Romanian: “Provincia Gegharkunik”
- Russian: “Гегаркуник”
- Russian: “Гегаркуникская область”
- Russian: “Гегаркуникский марз”
- Russian: “Гехаркуник”
- Russian: “Гехаркуникская область”
- Russian: “Гехаркуникский марз”
- Scots: “Gegharkunik Province”
- Serbian: “Geharkunik”
- Serbian: “Гехаркуник”
- Sinhala: “ගෙග්හාකුනික් පළාත”
- Spanish: “Geghark’unik‘”
- Spanish: “Gegharkunik”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Gegharkunik”
- Sundanese: “Propinsi Gegharkunik”
- Swedish: “Gegharkunik”
- Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Gegharkunik”
- Tamil: “கேகார்குனிக் மாகாணம்”
- Telugu: “గెగార్కునిక్ ప్రావిన్స్”
- Telugu: “గెగార్కునిక్ రాష్ట్రభాగం”
- Thai: “จังหวัดแกฆาร์คูนิค”
- Turkish: “Geğarkunik İdari Bölgesi”
- Turkish: “Geğarkunik”
- Ukrainian: “Гегаркунік”
- Ukrainian: “Ґегаркунік”
- Ukrainian: “Гехаркунік”
- Urdu: “گیغارکونیک صوبہ”
- Vietnamese: “Gegharkunik”
- Vietnamese: “Tỉnh Gegharkunik”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gegharkunik”
- Welsh: “Gegharkunik”
- Western Armenian: “Գեղարքունիքի մարզ”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ گغارکونیک”
- Wu Chinese: “格加尔库尼克省”
- Yue Chinese: “格加古力省”
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