Chernobyl exclusion zone

The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Zone of Alienation, also known as the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone or Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, is also called the 30-Kilometre Zone or simply The Zone, was established shortly after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union.
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  • Type: Locality with 314 residents
  • Description: officially designated exclusion area around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster in Ukraine
  • Also known as: “alienation zone”, “Chernobyl Exclusion Zone”, “Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Zone of Alienation”, “Chernobyl restricted zone”, “Chornobyl exclusion zone”, “Chornobyl Exclusion Zone”, “csernobili elidegenítési zóna”, “Czarnobylska Strefa Wykluczenia”, “Czarnobylska zona”, “elidegenítési zóna”, “Strefa Czarnobylska”, “Strefa Zamknięta wokół Czarnobylskiej AES”, “The Zone”, “Tjernobyls spärrzon”, “Tsjernobylsonen”, “zona”, “Zona”, “zona de alienacion”, “zona de alienación”, “zona de alienacion de Chernobil”, “Zona de alienaţie”, “zona de exclusion de Chernobil”, “zona de exclusión de Chernóbil”, “Zone d’aliénation de la centrale nucléaire de Tchernobyl”, “zone of alienation”, “Зона відчуження”, “Зо́на відчу́ження”, “Зона отчуждения”, “Чарнобыльская зона адчужэньня”, “Чернобыльская зона”, “Чернобыльская зона отчуждения”, “ЧЗО”, “Чорнобильська зона”, “Чорнобильщина”, and “체르노빌 출입금지구역”

Chernobyl exclusion zone

Latitude
51.05° or 51° 3′ north
Longitude
30.0014° or 30° 0′ 5″ east
Population
314
Elevation
128 metres (420 feet)
Open location code
9G3G3222+2H
Geo­Names ID
11612601
Wiki­data ID
Q1050926
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Chernobyl exclusion zone” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “منطقة تشيرنوبل المحظورة”
  • Armenian: “Չեռնոբիլի մեկուսացման գոտի”
  • Azerbaijani: “Çernobıl təcrid zonası”
  • Bashkir: “Чернобылдең ситләтелгән зонаһы”
  • Bashkir: “Чернобылдең ябыҡ зонаһы”
  • Basque: “Txernobylgo esklusio eremua”
  • Belarusian: “Зона адчужэння Чарнобыльскай АЭС”
  • Belarusian: “Зона адчужэньня Чарнобыльскай АЭС”
  • Bulgarian: “Чернобилска забранена зона”
  • Catalan: “zona d’exclusió de Txornòbil”
  • Catalan: “Zona d’exclusió de Txornòbil”
  • Chinese: “切尔诺贝利隔离区”
  • Chinese: “切爾諾貝利隔離區”
  • Chinese: “車諾比隔離區”
  • Croatian: “Černobilska zona isključenja”
  • Croatian: “Čornobyljska zona otuđenosti”
  • Czech: “Uzavřená zóna Černobylské jaderné elektrárny”
  • Dutch: “Vervreemdingszone”
  • Esperanto: “Malpermesata Zono de Ĉernobilo”
  • Estonian: “Tšornobõli eritsoon”
  • Finnish: “Tšernobylin suojavyöhyke”
  • French: “zone d’exclusion de Tchernobyl”
  • French: “Zone d’exclusion de Tchernobyl”
  • German: “Sperrzone von Tschernobyl”
  • Greek: “Ζώνη Αποκλεισμού του Τσερνόμπιλ”
  • Hebrew: “אזור מנוע כניסה - צ’רנוביל”
  • Hindi: “चेरनोबिल अपवर्जन क्षेत्र”
  • Hungarian: “30 km-es zóna”
  • Hungarian: “a csernobili atomerőmű elidegenítési zónája”
  • Indonesian: “Zona Eksklusi Chernobyl”
  • Indonesian: “Zona Eksklusi Chornobyl”
  • Italian: “Zona di alienazione di Chernobyl”
  • Italian: “Zona di alienazione”
  • Japanese: “チェルノブイリ立入禁止区域”
  • Korean: “체르노빌 제외 구역”
  • Korean: “체르노빌 출입 금지 구역”
  • Latvian: “Čornobiļas atsvešināšanas zona”
  • Lithuanian: “Černobylio zona”
  • Malay: “Zon pengasingan Chernobyl”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tsjornobylsonen”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tsjernobylsona”
  • Norwegian: “Tsjornobylsonen”
  • Persian: “منطقه ممنوعه چرنوبیل”
  • Polish: “Strefa Wykluczenia wokół Czarnobylskiej Elektrowni Jądrowej”
  • Portuguese: “Zona de exclusão de Chernobil”
  • Romanian: “Zona de excludere de la Cernobîl”
  • Romanian: “Zona de Excluziune Cernobîl”
  • Russian: “Зона отчуждения Чернобыльской АЭС”
  • Rusyn: “Чорнобыльска зона удчуджіня”
  • Rusyn: “Чорнобыльська зона удчуждіня”
  • Serbian: “Чернобиљска зона искључења”
  • Slovenian: “Černobilsko izključitveno območje”
  • Spanish: “Zona de alienación de la central nuclear de Chernóbil”
  • Spanish: “Zona de exclusión de Chernóbil”
  • Swedish: “Tjernobyls spärrområde”
  • Telugu: “చెర్నోబిల్ రేడియేషన్, పర్యావరణ జీవావరణ రిజర్వ్”
  • Turkish: “Çernobil Hariç Tutma Bölgesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Чорнобильська зона відчуження”
  • Urdu: “چرنوبل ممنوعہ علاقہ”
  • Uzbek: “Chernobil istisno zonasi”
  • Vietnamese: “Khu cách ly Chernobyl”

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