Kamchatka Peninsula
The Kamchatka Peninsula is a 1,250-kilometre-long peninsula in the Russian Far East, with an area of about 270,000 km2. The Sea of Okhotsk bounds the peninsula's western coastline, immediately offshore of the peninsula and below the Bering Sea runs the 9,600-metre-deep Kuril–Kamchatka Trench.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Peninsula
- Description: peninsula in Eastern Russia between the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Okhotsk
- Also known as: “Kamchatka”, “Kamchatskiya”, and “Poluostrov Kamchatka”
Kamchatka Peninsula
- Category: landform
- Location: Kamchatka, Russian Far East, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
Discover Kamchatka Peninsula from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Kamchatka Peninsula” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kamtsjatka-skiereiland”
- Albanian: “Kamçatka”
- Amharic: “ካምቻትካ”
- Arabic: “شبه جزيرة كامشاتكا”
- Armenian: “Կամչատկայի թերակղզի”
- Asturian: “Península de Kamchatka”
- Azerbaijani: “Kamçatka”
- Bashkir: “Камчатка”
- Basque: “Kamtxatka”
- Belarusian: “Камчатка”
- Belarusian: “Паўвостраў Камчатка”
- Bengali: “কামচাতকা উপদ্বীপ”
- Bengali: “কামচাতকা”
- Bosnian: “Kamčatka”
- Breton: “Ledenez Kamtchatka”
- Bulgarian: “Камчатка”
- Bulgarian: “Камчатски полуостров”
- Catalan: “Kamtxatka”
- Cebuano: “Kamchatka Peninsula”
- Central Kurdish: “نیمچە دوورگەی کامچاتکا”
- Chechen: “Камчатка”
- Chinese: “Kamchatka Poàn-tó”
- Chinese: “堪察加半岛”
- Chinese: “堪察加半島”
- Chinese: “琴察加半島”
- Chuvash: “Камчатка”
- Croatian: “Kamčatka”
- Czech: “Kamčatka”
- Danish: “Kamtjatka”
- Dutch: “Kamtsjatka”
- Esperanto: “Kamĉatko”
- Estonian: “Kamtšatka poolsaar”
- Finnish: “Kamtšatkan niemimaa”
- French: “Kamtchatka”
- Galician: “Península de Kamchatka”
- Georgian: “კამჩატკის ნახევარკუნძული”
- German: “Kamtschatka”
- Greek: “Χερσόνησος Καμτσάτκα”
- Hausa: “Yankin Kamchatka”
- Hebrew: “קמצ’טקה”
- Hindi: “कमचातका प्रायद्वीप”
- Hungarian: “Kamcsatka”
- Iban: “Semenanjung Kamchatka”
- Icelandic: “Kamsjatka”
- Icelandic: “Kamtsjatka”
- Inari Sami: “Kamtšatka njargâeennâm”
- Indonesian: “Kamchatka”
- Indonesian: “Semenanjung Kamchatka”
- Irish: “Leithinis Kamchatka”
- Italian: “Camciatca”
- Italian: “Kamčatka”
- Japanese: “カムチャツカ半島”
- Kashmiri: “جزیر نما کمچَٹکا”
- Kashmiri: “کمچَٹکا پَرلانٛکھ”
- Kazakh: “Камчатка”
- Kirghiz: “Камчатка”
- Korean: “깜챠뜨까 반도”
- Korean: “캄차카 반도”
- Ladin: “Penijula de Camciatca”
- Latin: “Camtschatca”
- Latvian: “Kamčatka”
- Latvian: “Kamčatkas pussala”
- Lithuanian: “Kamčiatkos pusiasalis”
- Luxembourgish: “Kamtschatka”
- Macedonian: “Камчатка”
- Malay: “Semenanjung Kamchatka”
- Malayalam: “കംചത്ക്ക ഉപദ്വീപ്”
- Marathi: “कामचत्का द्वीपकल्प”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kamchatka Poàn-tó”
- Mingrelian: “კამჩატკაშ ჩქონი”
- Mongolian: “Камчаткын хойг”
- Nepali: “कामचटका प्रायद्वीप”
- Nepali: “कामचाट्का पेनिनसुला”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kamtsjatkahalvøya”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kamtsjatkahalvøya”
- Norwegian: “Kamtsjatkahalvøya”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kamchatka”
- Ossetian: “Камчаткæ”
- Panjabi: “ਕਮਚਾਤਕਾ ਪ੍ਰਾਇਦੀਪ”
- Persian: “شبهجزیره کامچاتکا”
- Polish: “Kamczatka”
- Portuguese: “Península de Camecháteca”
- Portuguese: “Península de Kamchatka”
- Romanian: “Kamceatka”
- Romanian: “Kamchatka”
- Romanian: “Peninsula Kamchatka”
- Russian: “Камчатка”
- Russian: “Полуостров Камчатка”
- Scots: “Kamchatka Peninsula”
- Serbian: “Камчатка”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kamčatka”
- Sicilian: “Kamčatka”
- Slovak: “Kamčatka”
- Slovenian: “Kamčatka”
- Spanish: “Peninsula de Kamchatka”
- Spanish: “península de Kamchatka”
- Spanish: “Península de Kamchatka”
- Swahili: “Kamchatka”
- Swedish: “Kamtjatka”
- Swiss German: “Kamtschatka”
- Tagalog: “Tangway ng Kamchatka”
- Tamil: “கம்சாத்கா தீபகற்பம்”
- Tatar: “Камчатка”
- Thai: “คาบสมุทรคัมชัตคา”
- Tosk Albanian: “Kamtschatka”
- Turkish: “Kamçatka Yarımadası”
- Udmurt: “Камчатка”
- Ukrainian: “Камчатський півострів”
- Upper Sorbian: “Kamčatka”
- Urdu: “جزیرہ نما کامچاٹکا”
- Uzbek: “Kamchatka”
- Vietnamese: “Bán đảo Kamchatka”
- Vlaams: “Kamtsjatka-Schiereiland”
- Waray (Philippines): “Rawis han Kamchatka”
- Welsh: “Gorynys Kamchatka”
- Western Frisian: “Kamtsjatka-skiereilân”
- Western Mari: “Камчатка”
- Western Panjabi: “کمچٹکا جزیریورگا”
- Wu Chinese: “堪察加半岛”
- Yakut: “Камчаатка”
- Yue Chinese: “琴察加半島”
- Zeeuws: “Kamtsjatka”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Kishkerdinskiy and Anavgay.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Bystrinskiye Khrebet and Gora Anaun.
Kamchatka: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Yelizovo, Esso, and Nalychevo Nature Park.
Curious Places to Discover
Uncover intriguing places from every corner of the globe.
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