Kankan
Kankan is the largest city in Guinea in land area, and the third largest in population, with a population of 198,013 people as of 2020. The city is located in eastern Guinea about 555 kilometres east of the national capital Conakry.Photo: Lancine.kounfantoh.fofana, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Lancine.kounfantoh.fofana, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Lancine.kounfantoh.fofana, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kankan
- Type: City with 191,000 residents
- Description: city in Guinea
- Categories: human settlement, administrative division and locality
- Location: Kankan, Kankan Region, Haute Guinee, Guinea, West Africa, Africa
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Latitude
10.3835° or 10° 23' 1" northLongitude
-9.3069° or 9° 18' 25" westPopulation
191,000Elevation
381 metres (1,250 feet)IATA airport code
KNNUnited Nations Location Code
GN KNNOpen Location Code
7C2G9MMV+C6OpenStreetMap ID
node 5724319639OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2419992Wikidata ID
Q874317Kankan Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: كانكان
- Basque: Kankan
- Belarusian: Канкан (Гвінэя)
- Belarusian: Канкан
- Bengali: খানখান
- Bulgarian: Канкан
- Catalan: Kankan
- Cebuano: Kankan
- Chinese: 坎坎
- Chinese: 康康
- Croatian: Kankan
- Czech: Kankan
- Danish: Kankan
- Dutch: Kankan
- Egyptian Arabic: كانكان
- English: Nabaya (welcomes land)
- Esperanto: Kankan
- Finnish: Kankan
- French: Kankan
- Fulah: Kankan
- German: Kankan
- Greek: Κανκάν
- Gujarati: કાંકન
- Hebrew: קאנקאן
- Hindi: कनकन
- Hungarian: Kankan
- Indonesian: Kankan
- Italian: Kankan
- Japanese: カンカン
- Kannada: ಕಂಕಾನ್
- Korean: 캉칸
- Latvian: Kankana
- Lithuanian: Kankanas
- Macedonian: Канкан
- Malay: Kankan
- Marathi: काकण
- Mongolian: Канкан
- N'Ko: ߞߊ߲ߞߊ߲߫
- N'Ko: ߣߊ߬ߓߊ߰ߦߊ߫
- Northern Frisian: Kankan
- Norwegian: Kankan
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kankan
- Polish: Kankan
- Portuguese: Cancã
- Portuguese: Kankan
- Romanian: Kankan
- Russian: Канкан
- Sinhala: කන්කන්
- Spanish: Kankan
- Swedish: Kankan
- Tamil: மோப்டி
- Telugu: కన్కన్
- Thai: แคนคูน
- Turkish: Kankan
- Ukrainian: Канкан
- Urdu: کانکان
- Vietnamese: Kankan
- Western Frisian: Kankan
Other Places Named Kankan
In the Area
Kankan is situated close to the hamlets Berekagna and Farabakoura.
- BalandougouHamlet
- OuadougouHamlet
- Sub-prefecture of karfamoriahTown
- FouroubanHamlet
- TokounouHamlet
- FadougouHamlet
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipdia page Kankan. Photo: Lancine.kounfantoh.fofana, CC BY-SA 4.0.