Altai Krai

Altai Krai is a region of . It is located immediately west of the semi-autonomous . 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.
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is the largest city and administrative centre of Altai Krai, Russia, located at the confluence of the Barnaulka and Ob rivers in the .

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is the second largest city in Altai Krai with a population of 202,000 people and featured as naukograd, i.e, a science city.

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is a rural locality and the administrative center of Srostinsky selsoviet, , Altai Krai, Russia. The population was 2,769 as of 2013.

Altai Krai

Latitude of center
52.6932° or 52° 41′ 36″ north
Longitude of center
82.6931° or 82° 41′ 35″ east
Population
2,100,000
Elevation
211 metres (692 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 503057596
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
1511732
Wiki­data ID
Q5942
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Yue Chinese—“Altai Krai” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Алтаитәи атәылаҿацә”
  • Achinese: “Krai Altai”
  • Afrikaans: “Altai-krai”
  • Amharic: “አልታይ ክራይ”
  • 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”
  • Cebuano: “Altayskiy Kray”
  • Chechen: “Алтайн мохк”
  • 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: “Kraï d’Altaï”
  • French: “kraï de l’Altaï”
  • French: “Kraï 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”
  • Hausa: “Altai Krai”
  • Hebrew: “אלטאי”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז אלטאי”
  • Hindi: “अल्ताई क्राय”
  • Hungarian: “Altaji határterület”
  • Icelandic: “Altaífylki”
  • Ido: “Regiono Altai”
  • Indonesian: “Krai Altai”
  • Interlingue: “Krai Altai”
  • Inupiaq: “Altai Nuna”
  • Irish: “Críoch Altae”
  • Italian: “Territorio dell’Altaj”
  • Japanese: “アルタイ地方”
  • Javanese: “Krai Altai”
  • 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”
  • Latin: “Territorium Altaicum”
  • Latvian: “Altaja novads”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Crai de Altai”
  • 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”
  • Oromo: “Krai Altai”
  • Ossetian: “Алтайы край”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਲਤਾਈ ਕ੍ਰਾਈ”
  • Persian: “سرزمین آلتای”
  • Persian: “سرزمین آلتایی”
  • Persian: “کرای آلتایی”
  • Polish: “Kraj Ałtajski”
  • Portuguese: “Krai de Altai”
  • Portuguese: “Krai do Altai”
  • Pushto: “التای کرای”
  • Romanian: “Ținutul Altai”
  • Russia Buriat: “Алтай хизаар”
  • Russia Buriat: “Алтайн хизаар”
  • Russian: “Алтайский край”
  • Russian: “Алтайский Край”
  • Scots: “Altai Krai”
  • Serbian: “Алтајска Покрајина”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Altajski kraj”
  • Sinhala: “අල්ටායි ක්‍රයි”
  • Slovak: “Altajský kraj”
  • Slovenian: “Altajski okraj”
  • Somali: “Altai Krai”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آلتای دیاری”
  • Southern Altai: “Алтай кырай”
  • Spanish: “Krai de Altái”
  • Swahili: “Altai Krai”
  • Swedish: “Altaj kraj”
  • Swedish: “Altaj”
  • Tagalog: “Altai Krai”
  • Tajik: “Кишвари Олтой”
  • Talysh: “Altaj kraj”
  • Tamil: “அல்த்தாய் பிரதேசம்”
  • Tatar: “Алтай 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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