Altai Krai
Altai Krai is in a region Western Siberia. It is located immediately west of the semi-autonomous Altai Republic. Both regions are named after the stunningly beautiful Altai mountains and are home to the Altai people, an ethnically Turkic group living in the region for over 10,000 years.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Barnaul and Biysk.
Barnaul
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Barnaul is the largest city and administrative centre of Altai Krai, Russia, located at the confluence of the Barnaulka and Ob rivers in the West Siberian Plain.
Biysk
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Biysk is the second largest city in Altai Krai with a population of 202,000 people and featured as naukograd, i.e, a science city.
Srostki
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Srostki is a rural locality and the administrative center of Srostinsky selsoviet, Biysky District, Altai Krai, Russia. The population was 2,769 as of 2013.
Altai Krai
- Type: State with 2,350,000 residents
- Description: federal subject of Russia
- Also known as: “Altai”, “Altay”, “Altay Kray”, and “Altayskiy”
- Neighbors: Altai, Altai Republic, Kemerovo Oblast, and Novosibirsk Oblast
- Categories: krai of Russia, federal subject of Russia, and locality
- Location: Western Siberia, Siberia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude of center
52.6932° or 52° 41′ 36″ northLongitude of center
82.6931° or 82° 41′ 35″ eastPopulation
2,350,000Elevation
211 metres (692 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 503057596OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Altai Krai” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Krai Altai”
- Afrikaans: “Altai-krai”
- Arabic: “ألتاي كراي”
- Arabic: “ألطاي كراي”
- Arabic: “كراي ألتاي”
- Arabic: “كراي ألطاي”
- Armenian: “Ալթայի երկրամաս”
- Asturian: “Krai d’Altai”
- Azerbaijani: “Altay diyarı”
- Bashkir: “Алтай крайы”
- Basque: “Altai kraia”
- Belarusian: “Алтайскі край”
- Bengali: “আলতাই ক্রাই”
- Bosnian: “Altajski kraj”
- Bulgarian: “Алтайски край”
- Catalan: “krai de l’Altai”
- Catalan: “Krai de l’Altai”
- Catalan: “territori de l’Altai”
- Catalan: “Territori de l’Altai”
- Cebuano: “Altayskiy Kray”
- Chechen: “Алтайн мохк”
- Chinese: “Altai Pian-kiong-khu”
- Chinese: “阿尔泰边疆区”
- Chinese: “阿爾泰邊疆區”
- Church Slavic: “Алтаискъ краи”
- Chuvash: “Алтай Ен”
- Crimean Tatar: “Altay ülkesi”
- Croatian: “Altajski kraj”
- Czech: “Altajský kraj”
- Danish: “Altaj kraj”
- Dimli (individual language): “Altai”
- Dutch: “Altaj”
- Dutch: “Kraj Altaj”
- Eastern Mari: “Алтай мланде”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الطاى”
- Erzya: “Алтаень край”
- Esperanto: “Altaja regiono”
- Estonian: “Altai krai”
- Finnish: “Altain aluepiiri”
- French: “Altaï”
- French: “Kraï d’Altaï”
- French: “kraï de l’Altaï”
- French: “Kraï de l’Altaï”
- French: “région de l’Altaï”
- French: “territoire de l’Altaï”
- Galician: “Krai de Altai”
- Georgian: “ალთაის მხარე”
- German: “Altai”
- German: “Region Altai”
- Greek: “Κράι Αλτάι”
- Greek: “Κράι των Αλταΐων”
- Gujarati: “અલ્તાઇ ક્રાઇ”
- Hebrew: “אלטאי”
- Hebrew: “מחוז אלטאי”
- Hindi: “अल्ताई क्राय”
- Hungarian: “Altaji határterület”
- Icelandic: “Altaífylki”
- Ido: “Regiono Altai”
- Indonesian: “Krai Altai”
- Inupiaq: “Altai Nuna”
- Irish: “Críoch Altae”
- Italian: “Territorio dell’Altaj”
- Japanese: “アルタイ地方”
- Kalmyk: “Алтагин зах улс”
- Kannada: “ಆಲ್ಟಾಯ್ ಕ್ರೈ”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Алтай край”
- Kazakh: “Алтай өлкесі”
- Kirghiz: “Алтай крайы”
- Komi: “Алтай край”
- Korean: “알타이 변경주”
- Korean: “알타이 지방”
- Korean: “알타이”
- Latin: “Territorium Altaicum”
- Latvian: “Altaja novads”
- Lithuanian: “Altajaus kraštas”
- Lombard: “Kraj de Altaj”
- Luxembourgish: “Regioun Altai”
- Macedonian: “Алтајски крај”
- Macedonian: “Алтајски Крај”
- Malay: “Jajahan Altai”
- Marathi: “आल्ताय क्राय”
- Mazanderani: “آلتای کرای”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Altai Biĕng-giŏng-kṳ̆”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Altai Pian-kiong-khu”
- Mingrelian: “ალთაიშ აკანი”
- Moksha: “Алтаень край”
- Mongolian: “Алтайн хязгаар”
- Northern Frisian: “Altai (Regiuun)”
- Northern Frisian: “Altai”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Altaj kraj”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Altaj kraj”
- Norwegian: “Altaj kraj”
- Norwegian: “Altajskij kraj”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Altagland”
- Ossetian: “Алтайы край”
- Panjabi: “ਅਲਤਾਈ ਕ੍ਰਾਈ”
- Persian: “سرزمین آلتای”
- Persian: “سرزمین آلتایی”
- Persian: “کرای آلتایی”
- Polish: “Kraj Ałtajski”
- Portuguese: “Krai de Altai”
- Romanian: “Ținutul Altai”
- Russia Buriat: “Алтай хизаар”
- Russia Buriat: “Алтайн хизаар”
- Russian: “Алтайский край”
- Russian: “Алтайский Край”
- Russian: “Алта́йский край”
- Scots: “Altai Krai”
- Serbian: “Алтајска Покрајина”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Altajski kraj”
- Sinhala: “අල්ටායි ක්රයි”
- Slovak: “Altajský kraj”
- Slovenian: “Altajski okraj”
- South Azerbaijani: “آلتای دیاری”
- Southern Altai: “Алтай кырай”
- Spanish: “Krai de Altai”
- Spanish: “Krai de Altái”
- Swahili: “Altai Krai”
- Swedish: “Altaj kraj”
- Swedish: “Altaj”
- Tagalog: “Altai Krai”
- Tajik: “Кишвари Олтой”
- Talysh: “Altaj kraj”
- Tamil: “அல்டை கரை”
- Tamil: “அல்த்தாய் பிரதேசம்”
- Tatar: “Алтай крае”
- Tatar: “Алта́й крае”
- Telugu: “అల్టాయ్ క్రే”
- Thai: “แคว้นอัลไต”
- Thai: “ดินแดนอัลไต”
- Turkish: “Altay Krayı”
- Udmurt: “Алтай шаер”
- Ukrainian: “Алтайський край”
- Upper Sorbian: “Region Altaj”
- Urdu: “التائی کرائی”
- Uzbek: “Oltoy oʻlkasi”
- Veps: “Altajan rand”
- Vietnamese: “Altai”
- Vietnamese: “Vùng Altai”
- Waray (Philippines): “Altai Krai”
- Welsh: “Crai Altai”
- Western Frisian: “Altai (kraj)”
- Western Frisian: “Altai”
- Western Panjabi: “التائی کرائی”
- Wu Chinese: “阿尔泰边疆区”
- Yakut: “Алтай кыраайа”
- Yue Chinese: “阿爾泰邊疆區”
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