Kyakhta
Kyakhta is a town and the administrative center of Kyakhtinsky District in the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, located on the Kyakhta River near the Mongolia–Russia border.Photo: Vasilii Martynov, CC0.
- Type: Town with 20,000 residents
- Description: town in the Republic of Buryatia, Russia
- Also known as: “Khyagt”, “Kiakhta”, “Kiakta”, “Troitskosavsk”, and “Xyaagta”
- Address: Кяхтинский район
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Altanbulag.
Altanbulag
Town
Altanbulag is a district of Selenge Province in northern Mongolia. It is located about 25 km from the provincial capital of Sükhbaatar, on the border with Russia opposite the town of Kyakhta. Altanbulag is the location of the Altanbulag Free Trade Zone. Altanbulag is situated 6 km southeast of Kyakhta.
Kyakhta
- Categories: administrative divisions of Russia, human settlement, city or town, border city, and locality
- Location: Buryatia, Eastern Siberia, Siberia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude
50.35318° or 50° 21′ 11″ northLongitude
106.44915° or 106° 26′ 57″ eastPopulation
20,000Elevation
742 metres (2,434 feet)Inception
1805Open location code
9P289C3X+7MOpenStreetMap ID
node 279985581OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Kyakhta” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كياختا”
- Armenian: “Կյախտա”
- Azerbaijani: “Kyaxta”
- Belarusian: “Кяхта”
- Bulgarian: “Кяхта”
- Catalan: “Kiakhta”
- Cebuano: “Kyakhta”
- Chechen: “Кяхта”
- Chinese: “Kyakhta”
- Chinese: “恰克图”
- Chuvash: “Кяхта”
- Crimean Tatar: “Kâhta”
- Croatian: “Kjahta”
- Czech: “Kjachta”
- Dutch: “Kjachta”
- Esperanto: “Kjaĥta”
- Esperanto: “Kjaĥto”
- Estonian: “Kjahta”
- Finnish: “Kjahta”
- French: “Kiakhta”
- French: “Kiakta”
- Georgian: “კიახტა”
- German: “Kjachta”
- Hungarian: “Kjahta”
- Indonesian: “Kyakhta”
- Italian: “Kjachta”
- Italian: “Kyakhta”
- Japanese: “キャフタ”
- Kalmyk: “Кяхта балһсн”
- Kazakh: “Кяхта”
- Korean: “캬흐타”
- Kotava: “Kyaxta”
- Latin: “Kiachta”
- Latvian: “Kjahta”
- Lithuanian: “Kiachta”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kyakhta”
- Mongolian: “Хиагт”
- Northern Frisian: “Kjachta”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kjakhta”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kjakhta”
- Norwegian: “Kjakhta”
- Ossetian: “Кяхтæ”
- Persian: “کیاختا”
- Polish: “Kiachta”
- Portuguese: “Kyakhta”
- Russia Buriat: “Хяагта”
- Russian: “Кяхта”
- Russian: “Кя́хта”
- Russian: “Троицкосавск”
- Serbian: “Кјахта”
- South Azerbaijani: “کیاختا”
- Spanish: “Kiajta”
- Swedish: “Kjachta”
- Tagalog: “Kyakhta”
- Tajik: “Кяхта”
- Talysh: “Kjaxta”
- Tatar: “Кяхта”
- Turkish: “Kyahta”
- Ukrainian: “Кяхта”
- Upper Sorbian: “Kjachta”
- Veps: “Käht”
- Vietnamese: “Kyakhta”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kyakhta”
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