Sisian
Sisian is a city in Southern Armenia, in Syunik region. It is a good base to visit multiple attractions in the area such as the Ughtasar mountain, and the thousands of petroglyphs on top, the monastery of Vorotnavank, Tolors reservoir and the church inside it, Zorats Karer, Shaki waterfall and others.
- Type: Town with 14,300 residents
- Description: town in Syunik, Armenia
- Also known as: “Garakilse”, “Karakilisa”, “Qarakilsə”, “Qarakilsə rayonu”, “Sisavan”, “Sisiyan”, and “钖西安”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Sisian History Museum and Surb Hovhannes Monastery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Uyts.
Sisian
- Categories: city or town in Armenia and locality
- Location: Sisian Municipality, Syunik Province, Southern Armenia, Armenia, Caucasus, Asia
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Latitude
39.5235° or 39° 31′ 25″ north
Longitude
46.0236° or 46° 1′ 25″ east
Population
14,300
Elevation
1,609 metres (5,279 feet)
Open location code
8HF8G2FF+CC
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Sisian” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سيسيان”
- Armenian: “Sisian”
- Armenian: “Սիսիան”
- Azerbaijani: “Sisian”
- Basque: “Sisian”
- Belarusian: “Сісіян”
- Bulgarian: “Сисиан”
- Catalan: “Sisian”
- Catalan: “Sissian”
- Cebuano: “Sisian”
- Central Kurdish: “سیسیان”
- Chechen: “Сисиан”
- Chinese: “錫西安”
- Chinese: “锡西安”
- Czech: “Sisian”
- Danish: “Sisian”
- Dutch: “Sisian”
- Esperanto: “Sisian”
- Estonian: “Sisian”
- Finnish: “Sisian”
- French: “Sisian”
- Galician: “Sisian”
- Georgian: “სისიანი”
- German: “Sissian”
- Greek: “Σισιάν”
- Hungarian: “Sziszián”
- Indonesian: “Sisian”
- Italian: “Sisian”
- Japanese: “シシアン”
- Kazakh: “Сисиан”
- Korean: “시시안”
- Kurdish: “Sîsyan”
- Lithuanian: “Sisianas”
- Malay: “Sisian”
- Malayalam: “സിസിയാൻ”
- Mazanderani: “سیسیان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sisian”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sisian”
- Norwegian: “Sisian”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sisian”
- Ossetian: “Сисиан”
- Persian: “سیسیان”
- Polish: “Sisjan”
- Romanian: “Sisian”
- Russian: “Сисиан”
- Scots: “Sisian”
- Serbian: “Сисијан”
- South Azerbaijani: “سیسیان”
- Spanish: “Sisian”
- Swedish: “Sisian”
- Turkish: “Sisian”
- Ukrainian: “Сісіан”
- Upper Sorbian: “Sisian”
- Urdu: “سیسیان”
- Vietnamese: “Sisian”
- Welsh: “Sisian”
- Western Frisian: “Sisian”
- “Սիսիան”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Sisian and Uyts.
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