Nizhyn
Nizhyn is a city located in Chernihiv Oblast of northern Ukraine along the Oster River. The city is located 116 km north-east of the national capital Kyiv.
- Type: Town with 74,100 residents
- Description: Ukrainian city
- Also known as: “Néjine”, “Neshin”, “Nezhin”, “Nežin”, “Něžin”, “Nezjin”, “Niéjyne”, “Niĵin”, “Nižen”, “Nizhin”, “Nyzhen”, “Nyzhenʹ”, “Ніжен”, “Нѣжин”, and “ニージン”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Post Station in Nizhyn and Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi Academic Drama Theatre.
Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi Academic Drama Theatre
Theater building
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nizhynske.
Nizhyn
Latitude
51.0465° or 51° 2′ 47″ north
Longitude
31.8806° or 31° 52′ 50″ east
Population
74,100
Elevation
116 metres (381 feet)
UN/LOCODE
UA ZUU
Open location code
9G3H2VWJ+H7
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yakut—“Nizhyn” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نيجين”
- Armenian: “Նեժին”
- Asturian: “Nizhyn”
- Azerbaijani: “Nejin”
- Bashkir: “Нежин”
- Basque: “Nizhyn”
- Belarusian: “Нежын”
- Belarusian: “Ніжын”
- Bulgarian: “Нежин”
- Catalan: “Nijin”
- Cebuano: “Nizhyn”
- Chechen: “Нежин”
- Chinese: “尼任”
- Chinese: “涅任”
- Crimean Tatar: “Nijın”
- Croatian: “Nižin”
- Czech: “Nižyn”
- Danish: “Nizjyn”
- Dutch: “Nizjyn”
- Eastern Mari: “Нежин”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نيجين”
- Erzya: “Нижын ош”
- Esperanto: “Niĵino”
- Estonian: “Nižõn”
- Finnish: “Nižyn”
- French: “Nijyn”
- French: “Nijyne”
- Georgian: “ნეჟინი”
- Georgian: “ნიჟინი”
- German: “Nischyn”
- Greek: “Νίζιν”
- Hebrew: “ניז’ין”
- Hungarian: “Nyizsin”
- Irish: “Nizhyn”
- Italian: “Nižyn”
- Japanese: “ニジィン”
- Japanese: “ネージン”
- Korean: “니진”
- Latvian: “Ņižina”
- Lithuanian: “Nižynas”
- Maltese: “Nizhyn”
- Moksha: “Нижын”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nizjyn”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nizjyn”
- Norwegian: “Nizjyn”
- Ossetian: “Нежин”
- Persian: “نیژین”
- Polish: “Nieżyn”
- Polish: “Niżyn”
- Portuguese: “Nijyn”
- Portuguese: “Nizhyn”
- Romanian: “Nijîn”
- Russian: “Нежин”
- Russian: “Ніжин”
- Rusyn: “Ніжин”
- Rusyn: “Нїжин”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Nizhyn”
- Serbian: “Нижин”
- Serbian: “Ніжин”
- Slovenian: “Nižin”
- South Azerbaijani: “نیژین”
- Spanish: “Nizhyn”
- Swedish: “Nizjyn”
- Tatar: “Нижын”
- Thai: “นีฌึน”
- Turkish: “Nijın”
- Ukrainian: “Ніжин”
- Upper Sorbian: “Nižyn”
- Urdu: “نیژین”
- Uzbek: “Nijin”
- Vietnamese: “Nizhyn”
- Welsh: “Nizhyn”
- Yakut: “Нежин”
- Yakut: “Нижын”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Зірочка and Незалежності.
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Highlights: Фонтан and Ніжинська міська рада.
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