Chynorany (Hungarian: Kinorány) is a village and municipality in Partizánske District in the Trenčín Region of western Slovakia.

[5] The village is located on the right bank of the river Nitra, approximately in the middle between the towns of Partizánske and Topoľčany.

Slovak: chyn-, chyniť – to pretend, to lie (here also ambush, the word is preserved e.g. in Serbian as hiniti), ran-, raný, ranný – early, morning.

The municipality lies at an altitude of 178 metres (584 ft) and covers an area of 10.351 square kilometres (3.997 sq mi).

The records for genealogical research are available at the state archive in Nitra (Slovak: Štátny archív v Nitre).