Darvaza gas crater

The Darvaza gas crater, also known as the Door to Hell or Gates of Hell, officially the Shining of Karakum, is a burning natural gas field collapsed into a cavern near , .
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  • Crater
  • …lies at an elevation of 85 metres (279 feet)
  • Description: burning natural gas field in Turkmenistan
  • Also known as
    “1/10000000000000 of the real Hell”
    “Derweze gas fire”
    “Door to Hell”
    “Entering Hell”
    “Gates of Hell”
    “The Door to Hell”

Darvaza gas crater

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Latitude
40.25258° or 40° 15′ 9″ north
Longitude
58.43933° or 58° 26′ 22″ east
Open location code
8HGW7C3Q+2P
Geo­Names ID
7910302
Wiki­data ID
Q70458

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Darvaza gas crater” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “باب جهنم”
  • Arabic: “حفرة الجحيم”
  • Arabic: “حفرة باب جهنم”
  • Arabic: “فوهة غاز دروازة”
  • Armenian: “Դժոխքի դարպասներ”
  • Assamese: “নৰকৰ দুৱাৰ”
  • Asturian: “Pozu de Darvaza”
  • Azerbaijani: “Cəhənnəm qapıları”
  • Basque: “Darvazako gas kraterra”
  • Belarusian: “Вароты ў пекла”
  • Belarusian: “Дарваза”
  • Bengali: “নরকের দরজা”
  • Bulgarian: “Дервезе”
  • Burmese: “ငရဲတံခါးဝ”
  • Burmese: “ငရဲပြည်အဝင်ဝ”
  • Catalan: “Porta a l’infern”
  • Cebuano: “The Door to Hell”
  • Central Kurdish: “دەروازەی دۆزەخ”
  • Chinese: “地狱之门”
  • Croatian: “Vrata do pakla”
  • Czech: “Brána do pekla”
  • Dutch: “krater van Darvaza”
  • Dutch: “Krater van Derweze”
  • Dutch: “Poort naar de hel”
  • Finnish: “Darvazan kaasukraatteri”
  • French: “cratère de Darvaza”
  • French: “cratère de Derweze”
  • French: “cratère gazier de Darvaza”
  • French: “Porte de l’Enfer”
  • French: “Portes de l’enfer”
  • Galician: “Cráter de Darvaza”
  • Galician: “Porta ao Inferno”
  • Galician: “Pozo de Darvaza”
  • Georgian: “ჯოჯოხეთის კარიბჭე”
  • German: “Krater von Derweze”
  • German: “Tor zur Hölle”
  • Greek: “Κρατήρας Νταρβάζα”
  • Greek: “Πύλες της Κολάσεως”
  • Greek: “Πύλη της Κολάσεως”
  • Hebrew: “שער הגיהנום”
  • Hindi: “पाताल का द्वार”
  • Hungarian: “Derweze gázkráter”
  • Indonesian: “Kawah gas Darvaza”
  • Irish: “Cráitéar gáis Darvasa”
  • Italian: “Porta dell’inferno”
  • Japanese: “ダルヴァザ・ガス・クレーター”
  • Japanese: “ダルヴァザ天然ガス田炎上”
  • Japanese: “地獄の門”
  • Korean: “지옥으로 가는 문”
  • Lithuanian: “Pragaro vartai”
  • Luxembourgish: “Krater vun Derweze”
  • Malayalam: “നരകത്തിന്റെ കവാടം”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Krateret i Derveze”
  • Norwegian: “Krateret i Derveze”
  • Oriya: “ଦରୱାଜା ଗ୍ୟାସ ଗହ୍ଵର”
  • Panjabi: “ਨਰਕ ਦਾ ਦਰਵਾਜ਼ਾ”
  • Persian: “دروازه جهنم”
  • Portuguese: “Cratera de Darvaz”
  • Portuguese: “Cratera de Darvaza”
  • Russian: “Дарваза”
  • Rusyn: “Ворота до пекла”
  • Sindhi: “دوزخ جو دروازو”
  • Spanish: “Crater de Darvaza”
  • Spanish: “Cráter de Darvaza”
  • Spanish: “Cráter de Dravaza”
  • Spanish: “Pozo de Darvazá”
  • Spanish: “Puerta del Infierno”
  • Swahili: “Milango ya Kuzimu”
  • Swedish: “Dörren till helvetet”
  • Swedish: “Helvetesporten”
  • Tamil: “நரகத்திற்கான கதவு”
  • Thai: “หลุมแก๊สดาร์วาซา”
  • Turkish: “Cehennem Kapısı”
  • Ukrainian: “Дарваза (газовий кратер)”
  • Ukrainian: “Дервезе”
  • Urdu: “دروازہ جہنم”
  • Uzbek: “Darvaza gaz krateri”
  • Vietnamese: “Cánh cửa đến Địa ngục”
  • Vietnamese: “Mỏ khí Darvaza”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ganghaan han Impyerno”
  • Western Panjabi: “دروازہ جہنم”

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