Sayan Mountains
The Sayan Mountains are a mountain range in southern Siberia spanning southeastern Russia and northern Mongolia. Before the rapid expansion of the Tsardom of Russia, the mountain range served as the border between Mongolian and Russian cultures and cultural influences.Photo: NikitaKovtunSlyudyanka, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Mountain with an elevation of 1,087 metres
- Description: mountain range in Russia and Mongolia
- Also known as: “Sayansk Mountains” and “Sayany”
Sayan Mountains
- Categories: mountain range and landform
- Location: Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Sayan Mountains” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبال سايان”
- Armenian: “Սայաններ”
- Asturian: “Montes Sayanes”
- Azerbaijani: “Sayan dağları”
- Bashkir: “Саян тауҙары”
- Basque: “Saian mendiak”
- Basque: “Saian”
- Belarusian: “Саяны”
- Bulgarian: “Саян”
- Bulgarian: “Саяни”
- Catalan: “monts Saian”
- Catalan: “muntanyes Saian”
- Catalan: “Saian”
- Cebuano: “Sayan Mountains”
- Central Kurdish: “زنجیرەچیای سایان”
- Chinese: “Sayan Soaⁿ-me̍h”
- Chinese: “萨彦岭”
- Chinese: “薩彥嶺”
- Croatian: “Sajan”
- Croatian: “Sajanske planine”
- Czech: “Sajany”
- Danish: “Sajanbjergene”
- Dutch: “Sajan”
- Esperanto: “Sajan”
- Esperanto: “Sajano”
- Estonian: “Sajaani mäed”
- Estonian: “Sajaani mäestik”
- Estonian: “Sajaanid”
- Finnish: “Itä-Sajan”
- Finnish: “Länsi-Sajan”
- Finnish: “Sajan”
- Finnish: “Sajanvuoret”
- French: “Monts Saian”
- French: “monts Saïan”
- French: “Monts Saïan”
- French: “Saïan”
- Galician: “Montes Saian”
- Georgian: “საიანი”
- German: “Sajanen”
- German: “Sajangebirge”
- Greek: “Οροσειρά Σαγιάν”
- Hausa: “Duwatsun Sayan”
- Hebrew: “הרי סאיין”
- Hebrew: “הרי סייאן”
- Hebrew: “סייאן”
- Hindi: “सयान पर्वत श्रंखला”
- Hindi: “सयान पर्वत”
- Hindi: “सायन पर्वत शृंखला”
- Hindi: “सायन पर्वत श्रंखला”
- Hindi: “सायन पर्वत”
- Hindi: “सायन पर्वतों”
- Hindi: “सायान पर्वत श्रंखला”
- Hindi: “सायान पर्वत”
- Hungarian: “Szajánok”
- Indonesian: “Pegunungan Sayan”
- Italian: “Monti Saiani”
- Italian: “Monti Sajany”
- Italian: “Sajan”
- Italian: “Sajany occidentali”
- Japanese: “サヤン山脈”
- Korean: “사얀산맥”
- Ladin: “Crëps Sayan”
- Latin: “Saiani”
- Latvian: “Sajāni”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Montes Saian”
- Lithuanian: “Sajanai”
- Lithuanian: “Sajanų kalnai”
- Luxembourgish: “Sajanbierger”
- Macedonian: “Сајански Планини”
- Malayalam: “സയാൻ മലനിരകൾ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sayan Soaⁿ-me̍h”
- Mongolian: “Саян”
- Mongolian: “Соёны нуруу”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sajan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sajanfjellene”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kokmenfjella”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sajanfjella”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sajany”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Саяны”
- Norwegian: “Sajanfjellene”
- Oriya: “ସାୟନ ପର୍ବତ ଶୃଙ୍ଗ”
- Persian: “کوههای سایان”
- Polish: “Sajany”
- Portuguese: “Montes Saian”
- Portuguese: “Montes Sayan”
- Romanian: “Munții Saian”
- Romanian: “Saian”
- Russia Buriat: “Саяан уула”
- Russian: “Саян Моунтаинс”
- Russian: “Саян”
- Russian: “Саянское нагорье”
- Russian: “Саяны”
- Samogitian: “Sajanā”
- Serbian: “Sajani”
- Serbian: “Sajanske planine”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sajanske planine”
- Slovak: “Sajany”
- Slovenian: “Sajan”
- Slovenian: “Sajani”
- Slovenian: “Sajanske gore”
- Slovenian: “Sajansko gorovje”
- Spanish: “Montanas de Sayan”
- Spanish: “Montañas de Sayan”
- Spanish: “Montes Sayan”
- Spanish: “montes Sayanes”
- Spanish: “Montes Sayanes”
- Swahili: “Milima ya Sayan”
- Swedish: “Östra Sajan”
- Swedish: “Sajan”
- Swedish: “Sajanbergen”
- Swedish: “Västra Sajan”
- Tamil: “சயான் மலைத்தொடர்”
- Thai: “เทือกเขาซายัน”
- Turkish: “Sayan Dağları”
- Tuvinian: “Саян”
- Ukrainian: “Саяни”
- Ukrainian: “Саянські гори”
- Urdu: “سیان پہاڑ”
- Uzbek: “Sayan togʻlari”
- Venetian: “Monti Sajany”
- Vietnamese: “Dãy núi Sayan”
- Welsh: “Mynyddoedd Sayan”
- Wu Chinese: “萨彦岭”
- Yue Chinese: “薩彥嶺”
- “Sajanā”
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