Dranda
Dranda is a town located in Gulripshi District near the Black Sea, about 20 km from the capital Sukhumi and about 7 kilometers from Gulripshi. The town is near Sukhumi-Babushara Airport, which was reopened in 2008.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 3,210 residents
- Description: village in Abkhazia
- Also known as: “Drandi” and “Drandy”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dranda Cathedral and Sukhum International Airport.
Dranda Cathedral
Church
Photo: Alaexis, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dranda Cathedral is a Georgian Orthodox Cathedral located in Dranda, in the Gulripshi District of the de facto independent Republic of Abkhazia, internationally recognized to constitute a part of Georgia.
Sukhum International Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Alex Alex Lep, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Vladislav Ardzinba Sukhum International Airport, formerly known as Sukhumi Babushara and Sukhumi Dranda is the main airport of Abkhazia. It is located in the village of Babushara next to the larger village of Dranda and some 20 kilometres from Sukhumi, the capital of the unrecognised republic of Abkhazia. Sukhum International Airport is situated 3 km southwest of Dranda.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Babyshira and Dopukyt.
Babyshira
Village
Photo: Alex Alex Lep, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Babyshira is a village, which is situated 2½ km west of Dranda.
Dopukyt
Village
Estonia or sometimes Estonka, is a village in Abkhazia, Georgia by the river Kodori. The village was founded in 1881 and had a school and prayerhouse and a civic center. Dopukyt is situated 3½ km east of Dranda.
Adzyubzha
Village
Photo: Surprizi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Adzyubzha is a rural settlement in the Ochamchire Municipality of Abkhazia, Georgia’s breakaway republic. Situated at the mouth of Kodori River, the settlement was known as the most important center of the Afro-Abkhazian population who lived in Adzyubzha and its vicinity. Adzyubzha is situated 4 km south of Dranda.
Dranda
Latitude
42.87344° or 42° 52′ 24″ northLongitude
41.16232° or 41° 9′ 44″ eastPopulation
3,210Elevation
25 metres (82 feet)Open location code
8HJ3V5F6+9WOpenStreetMap ID
node 520601259OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
614863Wikidata ID
Q3951176
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Dranda” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Դրանդա”
- Bulgarian: “Дранда”
- Cebuano: “Dranda”
- Czech: “Dranda”
- Dutch: “Dranda”
- French: “Dranda”
- Georgian: “Dranda”
- Georgian: “დრანდა”
- German: “Dranda”
- Hebrew: “דרנדה”
- Mingrelian: “დრანდა”
- Polish: “Dranda”
- Russian: “Дранда”
- Slovak: “Dranda”
- Spanish: “Dranda”
- Swedish: “Dranda”
- Ukrainian: “Дранда”
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