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Abkhazia

Abkhazia is a mostly unrecognized country that seceded from — but is still claimed by — . It lies mainly on the eastern shores of the Black Sea in the region.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Sukhumi and Gagra.

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Sukhum is the capital and principal city of Abkhazia. It has for the better part of the last century been famous throughout the former Soviet Union as a prominent subtropical beach resort, complete with palm trees, botanical gardens, and citrus plantations, backed by the high alpine peaks of the Greater Caucasus Mountains.

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is a town in Abkhazia, sprawling for 5 km on the northeast coast of the , at the foot of the Caucasus Mountains. Its subtropical climate made a popular resort.

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is a town in Abkhazia/, and the capital of the . It is situated on the , 37 km northwest of , the capital of Abkhazia. It is the namesake for the Bay.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Ochamchire and Pitsunda.

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or Ochamchira is a seaside city on the coast of Abkhazia, , and a center of an . According to the 1989 Soviet population census, had 20,078 residents.

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or Bichvinta is a resort town in the of Abkhazia/. Founded by Greek colonists in the 5th century BC, became an important political and religious centre of the region in the antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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or Akhali Atoni is a town in the Gudauta Municipality of Abkhazia situated some 22 km from Sokhumi by the shores of the . The town was previously known under the names Nikopol, Acheisos, Anakopia, Nikopia, Nikofia, Nikopsis, Absara, and Psyrtskha. is one of Abkhazia's tourist attractions.

Abkhazia

Latitude of center
43° north
Longitude of center
40.9833° or 40° 58′ 60″ east
Population
244,000
Wiki­data ID
Q31354462
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zeeuws—“Abkhazia” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Аԥсны Аҳәынҭқарра”
  • Adyghe: “Адзыгъэй”
  • Afrikaans: “Abchasië”
  • Afrikaans: “Die Republiek van Abchasië”
  • Albanian: “Abhazia”
  • Albanian: “Abkazia”
  • Amharic: “አብካዝያ”
  • Angika: “अबखाजिया”
  • Arabic: “أبخازيا”
  • Arabic: “حكومة جمهورية أبخازيا”
  • Aragonese: “Abkhasia”
  • Armenian: “Աբխազիայի Հանրապետություն”
  • Arpitan: “Abcazia”
  • Asturian: “Abkhasia”
  • Avaric: “Абхазия”
  • Azerbaijani: “Abxaziya Respublikası”
  • Azerbaijani: “Abxaziya”
  • Bashkir: “Абхазия (дәүләт)”
  • Bashkir: “Абхазия (танылмаған дәүләт)”
  • Bashkir: “Абхазия Республикаһы”
  • Bashkir: “Абхазия”
  • Basque: “Abkhazia”
  • Bavarian: “Abchasien”
  • Belarusian: “Абхазія (непрызнаная дзяржава)”
  • Belarusian: “Абхазія (рэспубліка)”
  • Belarusian: “Абхазія”
  • Belarusian: “Рэспубліка Абхазія”
  • Bengali: “আবখাজিয়া প্রজাতন্ত্র”
  • Bengali: “আবখাজিয়া”
  • Betawi: “Abhasi”
  • Bosnian: “Abhazija”
  • Breton: “Abc’hazia”
  • Bulgarian: “Абхазия”
  • Catalan: “Abkhàzia”
  • Catalan: “República d’Abkhàzia”
  • Cebuano: “Abkhazia”
  • Central Bikol: “Abkhazia”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئەبخازیا”
  • Chavacano: “Abjasia”
  • Chechen: “Абхази”
  • Chechen: “Республика Абхази”
  • Chinese: “Abkhazia”
  • Chinese: “阿布哈兹”
  • Chinese: “阿布哈兹共和国”
  • Chinese: “阿布哈濟亞”
  • Chinese: “阿布哈茲”
  • Chinese: “阿布哈茲共和國”
  • Church Slavic: “Абхаꙁїꙗ”
  • Chuvash: “Абхази”
  • Cornish: “Abhazi”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Abhaziya Cumhuriyeti”
  • Croatian: “Abhazija”
  • Czech: “Abcházie”
  • Czech: “Abchazská republika”
  • Danish: “Abkhasien”
  • Danish: “Republikken Abkhasien”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Abxazya”
  • Dutch: “Abchazië”
  • Eastern Mari: “Абхазий”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ابخازيا”
  • Erzya: “Абхазия Мастор”
  • Esperanto: “Abĥazio”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Abĥazio”
  • Estonian: “Abhaasia”
  • Faroese: “Abkasia”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Abkhazia”
  • Finnish: “Abhasia”
  • French: “Abkhazie”
  • French: “république d’Abkhazie”
  • French: “République d’Abkhazie”
  • Gagauz: “Abhaziya”
  • Galician: “Abkhazia”
  • Galician: “República de Abkhazia”
  • Georgian: “აფხაზეთის რესპუბლიკა”
  • German: “Abchasien”
  • German: “Republik Abchasien”
  • Greek: “Αμπχαζία”
  • Greek: “Δημοκρατία της Αμπχαζίας”
  • Guarani: “Avekásia”
  • Gujarati: “અબ્ખાજિયા”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Abkhazia”
  • Hausa: “Abkhazia”
  • Hebrew: “אבחזיה”
  • Hebrew: “הרפובליקה של אבחזיה”
  • Hebrew: “רפובליקת אבחזיה”
  • Hindi: “अबख़ाज़िया”
  • Hungarian: “Abház Köztársaság”
  • Hungarian: “Abházia”
  • Icelandic: “Abkasía”
  • Ido: “Abhazia”
  • Iloko: “Abkhazia”
  • Indonesian: “Abkhazia”
  • Indonesian: “Republik Abkhazia”
  • Ingush: “Абхазехье”
  • Ingush: “Абхази”
  • Interlingue: “Abkhazia”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐊᑉᑲᓯᐊ”
  • Inupiaq: “Apikasiaq”
  • Irish: “an Abcáis”
  • Irish: “An Abcáis”
  • Irish: “Poblacht na hAbcáise”
  • Italian: “Abcasia”
  • Italian: “Repubblica d’Abcasia”
  • Japanese: “アブハジア”
  • Japanese: “アブハジア共和国”
  • Japanese: “アブハズ”
  • Javanese: “Abkhazia”
  • Kabardian: “Абхазия”
  • Kabardian: “Азгъей”
  • Kabyle: “Abxazya”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Abxaziya”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Хачыпсы”
  • Kazakh: “Абхазия Республикасы”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Abukaziya”
  • Kirghiz: “Абхазия”
  • Komi: “Абхазия”
  • Korean: “압하지야 공화국”
  • Korean: “압하지야”
  • Kurdish: “Ebxazya”
  • Ladin: “Abcasia”
  • Ladin: “Republica de Abcasia”
  • Ladino: “Abhazia”
  • Latin: “Abascia”
  • Latin: “Res publica Abascia”
  • Latvian: “Abhāzija”
  • Lezghian: “Абхазия”
  • Limburgan: “Abchazië”
  • Lithuanian: “Abchazija”
  • Lombard: “Abcasia”
  • Low German: “Abchazie”
  • Luxembourgish: “Abchasien”
  • Luxembourgish: “Republik Abchasien”
  • Macedonian: “Абхазија”
  • Maithili: “अबखाजिया”
  • Malagasy: “Abkazia”
  • Malay: “Abkhazia”
  • Malay: “Republik Abkhazia”
  • Malayalam: “അബ്ഖാസിയ”
  • Maltese: “Abkażja”
  • Manx: “Yn Abcaaish”
  • Marathi: “अबखाझिया”
  • Mazanderani: “آبخازیا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Abkhazia”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Abkhazia”
  • Minangkabau: “Abkhazia”
  • Mingrelian: “აფხაზეთი”
  • Mongolian: “Абхаз”
  • Nepali: “अबखाजिया”
  • Northern Frisian: “Abchaasien”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Abkhasia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Abkhasia”
  • Norwegian: “Abkhasia”
  • Novial: “Abkasia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Abcazia”
  • Oriya: “ଆବାଖାଜିଆ”
  • Ossetian: “Абхаз”
  • Ossetian: “Абхазы Республикæ”
  • Pali: “अब्खाजिया”
  • Pampanga: “Abhasya”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਬਖ਼ਾਜ਼ੀਆ”
  • Persian: “آبخاز”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Repablik o‘ Abkasiya”
  • Polish: “Abchazja”
  • Portuguese: “Abecásia”
  • Portuguese: “Abkhazia”
  • Pushto: “ابخازيا جمهوريت”
  • Pushto: “ابخازيا”
  • Romanian: “Abhazia”
  • Romanian: “Republica Abhazia”
  • Russia Buriat: “Абхази”
  • Russian: “Абхазия (государство)”
  • Russian: “Абхазия (непризнанное государство)”
  • Russian: “Абхазия”
  • Russian: “Республика Абхазия”
  • Rusyn: “Републіка Абхазія”
  • Samogitian: “Abkazėjė”
  • Sardinian: “Abcàsia”
  • Scots: “Abkhazie”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “An Abchas”
  • Serbian: “Абхазија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Abhazija”
  • Shan: “ဢႅပ်ႉၶေးၸီးယႃး”
  • Sicilian: “Abkhàzzia”
  • Silesian: “Abchazyjŏ”
  • Sindhi: “ابخازيا”
  • Slovak: “Abcházsko”
  • Slovenian: “Abhazija”
  • Slovenian: “Republika Abhazija”
  • Somali: “Abkhazia”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آبخازیا”
  • Spanish: “Abjasia”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴰⴱⵅⴰⵣⵢⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Abkhazia”
  • Swahili: “Abkhazia”
  • Swedish: “Abchazien”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Abchazien”
  • Tachelhit: “Abxazya”
  • Tagalog: “Abkhazia”
  • Tajik: “Ҷумҳурии Абхозистон”
  • Talysh: “Abxazijə”
  • Tamil: “அப்காசியா”
  • Tatar: “Абхазия Җөмһүрияте”
  • Tatar: “Абхазия”
  • Telugu: “అబ్‌ఖజియా”
  • Thai: “อับคาเซีย”
  • Turkish: “Abhazya Cumhuriyeti”
  • Turkish: “Abhazya”
  • Turkmen: “Abhaziýa”
  • Udmurt: “Республика Абхазия”
  • Ukrainian: “Абхазія”
  • Ukrainian: “Республіка Абхазія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Abchaziska”
  • Urdu: “ابخازيا”
  • Uzbek: “Abxaziya”
  • Uzbek: “Республика Абхазия”
  • Venetian: “Abcàzia”
  • Veps: “Abhazii”
  • Vietnamese: “Abkhazia”
  • Vietnamese: “Chính phủ Cộng hòa Abkhazia”
  • Volapük: “Labkasän”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Abkhazia”
  • Welsh: “Abchasia”
  • Welsh: “Gweriniaeth Abchasia”
  • Western Armenian: “Ապխազիոյ Հանրապետութիւն”
  • Western Mari: “Абхази”
  • Western Panjabi: “ابخازیا”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿布哈兹”
  • Xhosa: “Abkhazia”
  • Yakut: “Абхазия”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿布哈茲”
  • Zeeuws: “Abchazië”
  • “Abkazėjė”
  • “ma Akesija”
  • “ma Asini”
  • “ma Asuwa”

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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Abkhazia”. Photo: Halavar, CC BY-SA 4.0.