Shumshu
Shumshu is the easternmost and second-northernmost island of the Kuril Islands chain, which divides the Sea of Okhotsk from the northwest Pacific Ocean.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: island in Kuril Islands, Russia
- Historically known as: “Shumshir Island”
Shumshu
- Category: landform
- Location: Sakhalin Oblast, Russian Far East, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Shumshu from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Achinese to Vietnamese—“Shumshu” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Pulo Shumshu”
- Afrikaans: “Sjoemsjoe”
- Arabic: “شومشو”
- Azerbaijani: “Şumşu”
- Basque: “Shumshu”
- Basque: “Xumxu”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Шумшу”
- Belarusian: “Шумшу”
- Bulgarian: “Шумшу”
- Catalan: “Xumxú”
- Cebuano: “Ostrov Shumshu (pulo sa Rusya, Kamtchatski Kray)”
- Cebuano: “Ostrov Shumshu”
- Cebuano: “Ostrov Syumusyu”
- Cebuano: “Shimishu-tō”
- Cebuano: “Shimushu-tō”
- Cebuano: “Shimushu”
- Cebuano: “Shumshir”
- Cebuano: “Shumushu-jima”
- Cebuano: “Shumushu-tō”
- Cebuano: “Simusyu Tō”
- Chinese: “占守岛”
- Chinese: “占守島”
- Chinese: “舒姆舒岛”
- Chinese: “舒姆舒島”
- Czech: “Šumšu”
- Dutch: “Shimushu”
- Dutch: “Shumushu”
- Dutch: “Sjoemsjoe”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شومشو”
- Estonian: “Šumšu”
- French: “Choumchou”
- French: “Shumshu”
- German: “Schumschu”
- German: “Shumushu”
- Greek: “Σουμσού”
- Hebrew: “שומשו”
- Indonesian: “Shumshu”
- Italian: “Šumšu”
- Japanese: “しゅむしゅとう”
- Japanese: “シュムシュ島”
- Japanese: “占守島”
- Korean: “슈무슈 섬”
- Korean: “슘슈섬”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sjumsju”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sjumsju”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Шумшу”
- Norwegian: “Sjumsju”
- Persian: “شومشو”
- Polish: “Szumszu”
- Portuguese: “Ilha Shumshu”
- Portuguese: “Shumshu”
- Portuguese: “Shumushu”
- Russian: “Остров Шумшу”
- Russian: “Шумшу”
- Russian: “Шумъ”
- Spanish: “Shumshu”
- Turkish: “Şumşu Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Шумшу”
- Vietnamese: “Shumshu”
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