Chukchi Peninsula

The Chukchi Peninsula, at about 66° N 172° W, is the easternmost point of continental Asia.
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  • Type: Peninsula
  • Description: peninsula in the extreme North-Eastern Asia
  • Also known as: “Chukotka”, “Chukotsk Peninsula”, “Chukotskaya Zemlya”, “Chukotski Peninsula”, “Chukotski Peninsula;”, “peninsula de Chukchi”, “península de Chukchi”, “península dels Txuktxis”, “Tchukota Peninsula”, “Tschukotka”, “Tschuktschenhalbinsel”, “Txukotka”, “Чукотски полуостров”, “추코트 반도”, “チュコート半島”, and “チュコト半島”

Chukchi Peninsula

Latitude
66° north
Longitude
-172° or 172° west
Elevation
83 metres (272 feet)
Open location code
92RC2222+22
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5283690621
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peninsula
Geo­Names ID
4031751
Wiki­data ID
Q1002
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Chukchi Peninsula” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Tsjoekotka-skiereiland”
  • Arabic: “شبه جزيرة تشوكشي”
  • Armenian: “Չուկոտյան թերակղզի”
  • Asturian: “Península de Chukchi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Çukot yarımadası”
  • Bashkir: “Чукотка ярымутрауы”
  • Basque: “Txukotka penintsula”
  • Basque: “Txuktxi penintsula”
  • Belarusian: “Чукоцкі паўвостраў”
  • Bosnian: “Čukotsko poluostrvo”
  • Bulgarian: “Чукотка”
  • Catalan: “península de Txukotka”
  • Catalan: “Península de Txukotka”
  • Cebuano: “Chukotskiy Poluostrov”
  • Central Kurdish: “نیمچە دوورگەی چوکچی”
  • Chinese: “楚科奇半岛”
  • Chinese: “楚科奇半島”
  • Croatian: “Čukotski poluotok”
  • Czech: “Čukotka”
  • Czech: “Čukotský poloostrov”
  • Danish: “Tjuktjerhalvøen”
  • Dutch: “Tsjoektsjenschiereiland”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉukĉio”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉukotko”
  • Estonian: “Tšuktši poolsaar”
  • Finnish: “Tšuktšien niemimaa”
  • French: “péninsule Tchouktche”
  • French: “Péninsule Tchouktche”
  • Galician: “Península de Chukotka”
  • Georgian: “ჩუკოტკის ნახევარკუნძული”
  • German: “Tschuktschen-Halbinsel”
  • Greek: “Χερσόνησος Τσούκτσι”
  • Hebrew: “חצי האי הצ’וקצ’י”
  • Hindi: “चुकची प्रायद्वीप”
  • Hungarian: “Csukcs-félsziget”
  • Indonesian: “Semenanjung Chukchi”
  • Indonesian: “Semenanjung Chukotka”
  • Italian: “Penisola dei Ciukci”
  • Japanese: “チュクチ半島”
  • Kannada: “ಚುಕ್ಚಿ ಪೆನಿನ್ಸುಲ”
  • Kazakh: “Чукот түбегі”
  • Kirghiz: “Чукча жарым аралы”
  • Korean: “축치반도”
  • Latin: “Tschucotia”
  • Latvian: “Čukču pussala”
  • Lithuanian: “Čiukčių pusiasalis”
  • Low German: “Tschuktschen-Halfeiland”
  • Low German: “Tschuktschen-Halfinsel”
  • Macedonian: “Чукотски Полуостров”
  • Malay: “Semenanjung Chukchi”
  • Malayalam: “ചുക്ചി ഉപദ്വീപ്”
  • Mingrelian: “ჩუკოტკაშ ჩქონი”
  • Mongolian: “Чукотын хойг”
  • Newari: “चुक्ची प्रायद्वीप”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tsjuktsjerhalvøya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tsjuktsjarhalvøya”
  • Norwegian: “Tsjuktsjerhalvøya”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Peninsula tchoktcha”
  • Persian: “شبه‌جزیره چوکچی”
  • Polish: “Półwysep Czukocki”
  • Portuguese: “Península de Chucóteca”
  • Portuguese: “Península de Chukotka”
  • Romanian: “Peninsula Ciukotsk”
  • Russian: “Чукотский полуостров”
  • Russian: “Чукотский Полуостров”
  • Scots: “Chukchi Peninsula”
  • Serbian: “Чукотско полуострво”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Čukotsko poluostrvo”
  • Slovak: “Čukotský polostrov”
  • Slovenian: “Čukotski polotok”
  • Spanish: “Chukchi”
  • Spanish: “Península de Chukotka”
  • Swahili: “Rasi ya Chukchi”
  • Swedish: “Tjuktjerhalvön”
  • Tamil: “சுகோத்கா மூவலந்தீவு”
  • Tamil: “சுக்சி தீபகற்பம்”
  • Tatar: “Чукотка ярымутравы”
  • Thai: “คาบสมุทรชุกชี”
  • Turkish: “Çukçi Yarımadası”
  • Ukrainian: “Чукотський півострів”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Čukotka”
  • Urdu: “چوکچی جزیرہ نما”
  • Uzbek: “Chukotka yarim oroli”
  • Vietnamese: “Bán đảo Chukotka”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Rawis han Chukchi”
  • Western Frisian: “Tsjûkotka-skiereilân”
  • Western Mari: “Чукотка пел ошмаоты”
  • Wu Chinese: “楚科奇半岛”
  • Yakut: “Чукотка тумул арыы”
  • Yue Chinese: “楚科奇半島”

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