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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 14,300 residents
- Description: town in Syunik, Armenia
- Also known as: “Karakilisa”, “Sisavan”, and “钖西安”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sisian History Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Uyts.
Uyts
Village
Photo: Bajarvis, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Uyts is a village in the Sisian Municipality of the Syunik Province in Armenia. Uyts lies roughly 3.5 kilometers away from the nearby city of Sisian.
Sisian
- Categories: city or town in Armenia and locality
- Location: Sisian Municipality, Syunik Province, Southern Armenia, Armenia, Caucasus, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.5235° or 39° 31′ 25″ northLongitude
46.0236° or 46° 1′ 25″ eastPopulation
14,300Elevation
1,609 metres (5,279 feet)Open location code
8HF8G2FF+CCOpenStreetMap ID
node 210222626OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
174763Wikidata ID
Q39551
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Sisian” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سيسيان”
- Armenian: “Sisian”
- Armenian: “Սիսիան”
- Azerbaijani: “Qarakilsə rayonu”
- Azerbaijani: “Qarakilsə”
- Azerbaijani: “Sisian”
- Azerbaijani: “Sisiyan”
- Belarusian: “Сісіян”
- Bulgarian: “Сисиан”
- Catalan: “Sisian”
- Catalan: “Sissian”
- Cebuano: “Sisian”
- Central Kurdish: “سیسیان”
- Chechen: “Сисиан”
- Chinese: “Sisian”
- Chinese: “錫西安”
- Chinese: “锡西安”
- Czech: “Sisian”
- Danish: “Sisian”
- Dutch: “Sisian”
- Dutch: “Sissian”
- Esperanto: “Sisian”
- Estonian: “Sisian”
- Finnish: “Sisian”
- French: “Sisian”
- French: “Sissian”
- Georgian: “სისიანი”
- German: “Sisian”
- German: “Sissian”
- Greek: “Σισιάν”
- Hungarian: “Sziszián”
- Indonesian: “Sisian”
- Italian: “Garakilse”
- Italian: “Sisian”
- Japanese: “シシアン”
- 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: “Sisian”
- 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”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Sisian”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.