Tacna
Tacna is a city on the Southern Coast of Peru. It serves as the main gateway between Peru and Chile.- Type: City with 286,000 residents
- Description: city of Peru, capital of Tacna region
- Also known as: “Ciudad Heróica de Tacna”, “Heróica Ciudad de San Pedro de Tacna”, “San Pedro de Tacna”, and “ซานเปโดรเดตักนา”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Bab al-Islam Mosque and National Railway Museum.
National Railway Museum
Museum
Tacna Ornamental Fountain
Fountain
Tacna
- Categories: border city, big city, and locality
- Location: Tacna, Province of Tacna, Tacna, Southern Coast, Peru, South America
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Latitude
-18.0139° or 18° 0′ 50″ south
Longitude
-70.2511° or 70° 15′ 4″ west
Population
286,000
Elevation
567 metres (1,860 feet)
IATA airport code
TCQ
UN/LOCODE
PE TCQ
Open location code
57HFXPPX+FH
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Akan to Wu Chinese—“Tacna” goes by many names.
- Akan: “Tacna”
- Amharic: “ታክና”
- Arabic: “تاكنا”
- Armenian: “Տակնա”
- Asturian: “Tacna”
- Aymara: “Taqna”
- Azerbaijani: “Takna”
- Basque: “Tacna”
- Belarusian: “Такна”
- Bengali: “টাকনা”
- Bengali: “ট্যাকনা”
- Catalan: “Tacna”
- Cebuano: “Tacna”
- Chinese: “塔克納”
- Chinese: “塔克纳”
- Chuvash: “Такна”
- Czech: “Tacna”
- Danish: “Tacna”
- Dutch: “Tacna”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تاكنا”
- Esperanto: “Takno”
- Estonian: “Tacna”
- Finnish: “Tacna”
- French: “Tacna”
- Georgian: “ტაკნა”
- German: “Tacna”
- Greek: “Τάκνα”
- Gujarati: “ટાક્ના”
- Hausa: “Tacna”
- Hebrew: “טאקנה”
- Hindi: “तक्ना”
- Hindi: “ताकना”
- Hungarian: “Tacna”
- Ido: “Tacna”
- Indonesian: “Tacna”
- Irish: “Tacna”
- Italian: “Tacna”
- Japanese: “タクナ”
- Javanese: “Tacna”
- Kannada: “ಟಾಕ್ನ”
- Kazakh: “Такна”
- Kirghiz: “Такна”
- Korean: “타크나”
- Latin: “Tacna”
- Latvian: “Takna”
- Lithuanian: “Takna”
- Macedonian: “Такна”
- Malay: “Tacna”
- Marathi: “टासना”
- Nauru: “Tacna”
- Northern Frisian: “Tacna”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tacna”
- Norwegian: “Tacna”
- Oromo: “Tacna”
- Panjabi: “ਤਾਕਨਾ”
- Persian: “تاکنا”
- Polish: “Tacna”
- Portuguese: “Tacna”
- Pushto: “تاکنا”
- Quechua: “Taqna”
- Romanian: “Tacna”
- Russian: “Такна”
- Serbian: “Такна”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tacna”
- Sinhala: “ටැක්නා, පේරු”
- Sinhala: “ටැක්නා”
- Slovak: “Tacna”
- Slovenian: “Tacna”
- Somali: “Tacna”
- Spanish: “Tacna”
- Swahili: “Tacna”
- Swedish: “Tacna”
- Tajik: “Такна”
- Tamil: “டாக்னா”
- Tatar: “Такна”
- Telugu: “టాక్న”
- Thai: “ตักนา”
- Turkish: “Tacna”
- Twi: “Tacna”
- Ukrainian: “Такна”
- Urdu: “تاکنا”
- Uzbek: “Tacna”
- Venetian: “Tacna”
- Vietnamese: “Tacna”
- Volapük: “Tacna”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tacna”
- Western Armenian: “Թաքնա”
- Wu Chinese: “塔克纳”
- “Tacna”
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