Shakhun’ya
Shakhunya is a town in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the Nizhny Novgorod–Kirov railway, 240 kilometers northeast of Nizhny Novgorod. Population: 20,921 ; 21,724 ; 22,337 .- Type: Town with 20,400 residents
- Description: city
- Also known as: “Shakhunya” and “Шаху́нья”
Shakhun’ya
- Categories: city or town and locality
- Location: Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Volga Region, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude
57.67302° or 57° 40′ 23″ north
Longitude
46.61524° or 46° 36′ 55″ east
Population
20,400
Elevation
152 metres (499 feet)
UN/LOCODE
RU SHK
Open location code
9H98MJF8+63
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Shakhun’ya” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شاخاونايا”
- Belarusian: “Шахунья”
- Bulgarian: “Шахуня”
- Cebuano: “Shakhun’ya”
- Chechen: “Шахунья”
- Chinese: “沙胡尼亚”
- Chinese: “沙胡尼亞”
- Crimean Tatar: “Şahunya”
- Czech: “Šachuňja”
- Dutch: “Sjachoenja”
- Erzya: “Шахунья ош”
- Esperanto: “Ŝaĥunja”
- Estonian: “Šahhunja”
- Finnish: “Šahunja”
- French: “Chakhounia”
- German: “Schachunja”
- Italian: “Šachun’ja”
- Japanese: “シャフーニャ”
- Japanese: “シャフーニヤ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Shakhunya”
- Moksha: “Шахунья”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sjakhunja”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sjakhunja”
- Norwegian: “Sjakhunja”
- Ossetian: “Шахунья”
- Persian: “شاخونیا”
- Polish: “Szachunja”
- Russian: “Шахунья”
- Serbian: “Шахуња”
- South Azerbaijani: “شاخونیا”
- Spanish: “Shajunia”
- Tagalog: “Shakhunya”
- Tajik: “Шахуня”
- Talysh: “Šaxunja”
- Tatar: “Шахунья”
- Turkish: “Şahunya”
- Ukrainian: “Шахунья”
- Upper Sorbian: “Šachunja”
- Veps: “Šahunj”
- Waray (Philippines): “Shakhunya”
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