Ural
The Ural, also known as the Yaik, is a river flowing through Russia and Kazakhstan in the continental border between Europe and Asia. It originates in the southern Ural Mountains and discharges into the Caspian Sea.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Russia and Kazakhstan
- Also known as: “Ural River”, “Yaik”, “Yayıq”, and “Zhayyq”
- Historically known as: “Jaik”, “Rhymnus”, and “Δάϊκος”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yerkinkala and Ракуша.
Yerkinkala
Village
Yerkinkala is a town in Atyrau Region, western Kazakhstan, 2 km southwest of the regional capital of Atyrau. It lies at an altitude of 23 m below sea level. Yerkinkala is situated 3 km north of Ural.
Ракуша
Village
Photo: Мағыпар, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ракуша is a village, which is situated 7 km north of Ural.
Тасқала
Village
Photo: Мағыпар, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Тасқала is a village, which is situated 8 km northeast of Ural.
Ural
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Ural” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Oeral-rivier”
- Afrikaans: “Oeralrivier”
- Albanian: “Lumi i Uralit”
- Albanian: “Urali”
- Arabic: “نهر الأورال”
- Arabic: “نهر الاورال”
- Armenian: “Ուրալ”
- Asturian: “Ríu Ural”
- Azerbaijani: “Ural çayı”
- Bashkir: “Яйыҡ”
- Basque: “Ural ibaia”
- Basque: “Ural”
- Belarusian: “рака Урал”
- Belarusian: “Урал”
- Belarusian: “Яік”
- Belarusian: “Яйыҡ”
- Bengali: “ইউরাল নদী”
- Bhojpuri: “ज़ायक नदी”
- Bhojpuri: “युराल नदी”
- Bhojpuri: “यूराल नदी”
- Bhojpuri: “यूराल”
- Bosnian: “Ural”
- Breton: “Oural”
- Breton: “Stêr Oural”
- Bulgarian: “Урал”
- Catalan: “Iaik”
- Catalan: “Jaik”
- Catalan: “Oral”
- Catalan: “Riu Oral”
- Catalan: “Riu Ural”
- Catalan: “Ural”
- Catalan: “Yaik”
- Cebuano: “Zhayyq”
- Central Bikol: “Salog Ural”
- Chinese: “乌拉尔河”
- Chinese: “烏拉河”
- Chinese: “烏拉爾河”
- Church Slavic: “Оуралъ · рѣка”
- Chuvash: “Урал”
- Croatian: “Ural”
- Czech: “Ural”
- Danish: “Uralfloden”
- Dimli (individual language): “Royê Urali”
- Dutch: “Oeral”
- Dutch: “Oeralrivier”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر الاورال”
- Erzya: “Урал”
- Esperanto: “Ural”
- Esperanto: “Urala rivero”
- Esperanto: “Uralo”
- Estonian: “Uurali jõgi”
- Estonian: “Žajok”
- Fiji Hindi: “Ural Naddi”
- Finnish: “Ural-joki”
- Finnish: “Ural”
- Finnish: “Uraljoki”
- French: “Iaïk”
- French: “Oural”
- Galician: “Río Ural”
- Georgian: “ურალი”
- German: “Schajyq”
- German: “Ural”
- Greek: “Ουράλης”
- Greek: “Ποταμός Ουράλης”
- Guarani: “Ysyry Ural”
- Hebrew: “אורל”
- Hindi: “उराल नदी”
- Hindi: “युराल नदी”
- Hindi: “यूराल नदी”
- Hungarian: “Urál”
- Icelandic: “Úralfljót”
- Ido: “Rivero Ural”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Ural”
- Indonesian: “Ural”
- Irish: “Abhainn na hÚraile”
- Italian: “Ural”
- Japanese: “ウラル川”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Jayıq”
- Kazakh: “Zhayyq”
- Kazakh: “Жайық өзені”
- Kazakh: “Жайық”
- Kazakh: “Орал өзені”
- Kazakh: “Урал”
- Korean: “우랄강”
- Ladin: “Ural (ruf)”
- Ladin: “Ural”
- Latin: “Iaick”
- Latin: “Iaicus”
- Latin: “Iaik”
- Latin: “Rhymnus”
- Latvian: “Jaika”
- Latvian: “Urāla”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Rio Ural”
- Lithuanian: “Uralas”
- Lithuanian: “Uralo upė”
- Lithuanian: “Žajikas”
- Lombard: “Ural”
- Lower Sorbian: “Ural”
- Luxembourgish: “Ural”
- Macedonian: “Урал”
- Malagasy: “Renirano Oraly”
- Malay: “Sungai Ural”
- Malayalam: “യുറാൽ നദി”
- Marathi: “उरल नदी”
- Mazanderani: “اورال”
- Mingrelian: “ურალი (წყარმალუ)”
- Mingrelian: “ურალი”
- Mirandese: “Riu Ural”
- Mongolian: “Урал гол”
- Northern Frisian: “Uraal (Struum)”
- Northern Frisian: “Uraal”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ural”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Uralelva”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Elva Ural”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jaik”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Jayıq”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Uralelva”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yaik”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zjajyk”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Жайық”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Урал”
- Norwegian: “Ural”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Oral”
- Oriya: “ୟୁରାଲ ନଦୀ”
- Ossetian: “Урал (цæугæдон)”
- Ossetian: “Урал”
- Panjabi: “ਉਰਾਲ ਦਰਿਆ”
- Persian: “رود اورال”
- Persian: “رودخانه اورال”
- Persian: “رودخانهٔ اورال”
- Piemontese: “Ural”
- Polish: “Jaik”
- Polish: “Ural”
- Portuguese: “Rio Ural”
- Portuguese: “Ural”
- Romanian: “Râul Ural”
- Romanian: “Ural”
- Russian: “Жаик”
- Russian: “Урал”
- Russian: “Яик” (historical)
- Santali: “ᱩᱨᱟᱞ ᱜᱟᱰᱟ”
- Santali: “ᱭᱩᱨᱟᱞ ᱱᱟ.ᱭ”
- Serbian: “Река Урал”
- Serbian: “Урал”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ural”
- Shona: “Rwizi Urawu”
- Sicilian: “Ural”
- Sinhala: “යූරල් ගංගාව”
- Slovak: “Jaik”
- Slovak: “Ural”
- Slovak: “Žajyk”
- Slovenian: “Ural”
- South Azerbaijani: “اورال چایی”
- Spanish: “Rio Ural”
- Spanish: “Río Ural”
- Spanish: “Rio Yaik”
- Spanish: “Río Yaik”
- Spanish: “Ural”
- Swahili: “Ural (mto)”
- Swahili: “Ural”
- Swedish: “Jaik”
- Swedish: “Jajk”
- Swedish: “Ural”
- Swedish: “Uralfloden”
- Tagalog: “Ilog ng Ural”
- Tagalog: “Ilog sa Ural”
- Tagalog: “Ilog Ural”
- Tagalog: “Jayiq”
- Tagalog: “Jayıq”
- Tagalog: “Ural River”
- Tagalog: “Zhayik”
- Tagalog: “Zhayiq”
- Tagalog: “Zhayyq”
- Tamil: “உரால் ஆறு”
- Tatar: “Җаек елгасы”
- Tatar: “Җаек”
- Tatar: “Урал елгасы”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำยูรัล”
- Turkish: “Ural Irmağı”
- Turkish: “Ural Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Җаек”
- Ukrainian: “Урал”
- Ukrainian: “Яїк”
- Upper Sorbian: “Ural”
- Urdu: “دریائے اورال”
- Uzbek: “Ural”
- Venetian: “Fiume Ural”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Ural”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Uran”
- Waray (Philippines): “Salog Ural”
- Welsh: “Afon Ural”
- Welsh: “Afon Wral”
- Western Frisian: “Oeral”
- Western Frisian: “Oeralrivier”
- Western Frisian: “Uralrivier”
- Western Panjabi: “دریائے اورال”
- Wu Chinese: “乌拉尔河”
- Yue Chinese: “烏拉河”
- “Kali Ural”
- “Sungai Ural”
- “यूराल नदी”
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