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Altai Republic

Altai is a republic in , which has an amazing variety of landscapes: from boundless steppes to impassable taiga forests. The Altai Mountains are the highest in Siberia.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Gorno-Altaisk and Chemal.

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Gorno-Altaysk is the capital town of the Altai Republic, . The population stands at around 64,000 people as of 2020 with steady growth over the recent years. In the past, the town was known as Ulala and then Oyrot-Tura.

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is a community of 3,600 people in the Altai Republic on the right bank of the Katun, at the confluence of the River. is one of the recreational centers of the Altai Republic.

Altai Republic

Latitude
50.7114° or 50° 42′ 41″ north
Longitude
86.8572° or 86° 51′ 26″ east
Population
211,000
Elevation
1,804 metres (5,919 feet)
Open location code
9M28PV64+HV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 503059916
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1506272
Wiki­data ID
Q5971
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Altai Republic” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Republik Altai”
  • Afrikaans: “Altai”
  • Albanian: “Republika e Altait”
  • Arabic: “جمهورية ألطاي”
  • Armenian: “Ալթայի հանրապետություն”
  • Armenian: “Ալթայի Հանրապետություն”
  • Azerbaijani: “Altay Respublikası”
  • Bashkir: “Алтай Республикаһы”
  • Basque: “Altaiko Errepublika”
  • Belarusian: “Алтай”
  • Belarusian: “Рэспубліка Алтай”
  • Bengali: “আলতাই প্রজাতন্ত্র”
  • Bosnian: “Altajska republika”
  • Breton: “Altay”
  • Bulgarian: “Алтай”
  • Bulgarian: “Република Алтай”
  • Catalan: “República de l’Altai”
  • Cebuano: “Respublika Altay”
  • Chechen: “Республика Алтай”
  • Chinese: “Altai Kiōng-hô-kok”
  • Chinese: “阿尔泰共和国”
  • Chinese: “阿爾泰”
  • Church Slavic: “Алтаи Димократїꙗ”
  • Chuvash: “Алтай Республики”
  • Chuvash: “Алтай”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Altay Cumhuriyeti”
  • Croatian: “Altaj”
  • Croatian: “Altajska”
  • Croatian: “Republika Altaj”
  • Czech: “Altaj”
  • Czech: “Altajská republika”
  • Czech: “Republika Altaj”
  • Danish: “Altai”
  • Danish: “Republikken Altaj”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Cumhuriyetê Altayi”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Cumurêtê Altay”
  • Dutch: “Altaj”
  • Eastern Mari: “Алтай Республик”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جمهورية الطاى”
  • Erzya: “Алтай Республикась”
  • Esperanto: “Altajio”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Altaj”
  • Esperanto: “Respubliko Altajo”
  • Estonian: “Altai Vabariik”
  • Finnish: “Altain tasavalta”
  • French: “Altaï”
  • French: “République d’Altaï”
  • French: “république de l’Altaï”
  • French: “République de l’Altaï”
  • Gagauz: “Altay Respublikası”
  • Galician: “República de Altai”
  • Georgian: “ალთაი”
  • Georgian: “ალთაის რესპუბლიკა”
  • German: “Altai”
  • German: “Republik Altai”
  • Greek: “Δημοκρατία των Αλτάι”
  • Greek: “Δημοκρατία των Αλταΐων”
  • Gujarati: “અલ્તાઇ રિપબ્લિક”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Altai Khiung-fò-koet”
  • Hausa: “Altai Republic”
  • Hebrew: “אלטאי”
  • Hindi: “अल्ताई गणराज्य”
  • Hungarian: “Altaj köztársaság”
  • Hungarian: “Altaj Köztársaság”
  • Icelandic: “Altaíska lýðveldið”
  • Ido: “Republiko Altai”
  • Inari Sami: “Altai täsiväldi”
  • Indonesian: “Republik Altai”
  • Inupiaq: “Altai”
  • Irish: “Poblacht Altae”
  • Irish: “Poblacht Altáí”
  • Italian: “Repubblica dell’Altaj”
  • Japanese: “アルタイ共和国”
  • Kalmyk: “Теленгудин таңһч”
  • Kannada: “ಆಲ್ಟಾಯ್ ರಿಪಬ್ಲಿಕ್”
  • Kannada: “ಆಲ್ಟೈ ಗಣರಾಜ್ಯ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Altay Respublikası”
  • Kazakh: “Алтай Республикасы”
  • Kirghiz: “Алтай Республикасы”
  • Komi: “Алтай республика”
  • Korean: “알타이 공화국”
  • Kurdish: “Komara Altayê”
  • Ladin: “Republica de l’Altai”
  • Latin: “Altai”
  • Latvian: “Altaja Republika”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Republica de Altai”
  • Lithuanian: “Altajaus Respublika”
  • Lombard: “Republega de l’Altaj”
  • Macedonian: “Република Алтај”
  • Malay: “Republik Altai”
  • Marathi: “आल्ताय प्रजासत्ताक”
  • Mazanderani: “آلتای جمهوری”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Altai Gê̤ṳng-huò-guók”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Altai Kiōng-hô-kok”
  • Mingrelian: “ალთაიშ რესპუბლიკა”
  • Moksha: “Алтай Республикась”
  • Mongolian: “Алтайн Бүгд Найрамдах Улс”
  • Mongolian: “Бүгд Найрамдах Алтай Улс”
  • Northern Frisian: “Altai (Republiik)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Altai”
  • Northern Sami: “Altai dásseváldi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Altaj”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Republikken Altaj”
  • Norwegian: “Altaj”
  • Ossetian: “Алтайы Республикæ”
  • Ossetian: “Республикæ Алтай”
  • Pampanga: “Altai Republic”
  • Pampanga: “Republika ning Altai”
  • Persian: “جمهوری آلتای”
  • Persian: “جمهوری آلتایی”
  • Polish: “Republika Ałtaju”
  • Portuguese: “Altai”
  • Portuguese: “República de Altai”
  • Pushto: “التای جمهوریت”
  • Romanian: “Republica Altai”
  • Russia Buriat: “Алтай Республика”
  • Russia Buriat: “Алтай Улас”
  • Russian: “Алтай”
  • Russian: “Горный Алтай”
  • Russian: “Республика Алтай”
  • Scots: “Altai Republic”
  • Serbian: “Алтај”
  • Serbian: “Република Алтај”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Altaj”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Republika Altaj”
  • Silesian: “Republika Ałtaju”
  • Sindhi: “التائي جمهوريا”
  • Sinhala: “අල්ටායි ජනරජය”
  • Skolt Sami: “Altai tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Slovak: “Altajsko”
  • Slovenian: “Altaj”
  • Slovenian: “Altajska republika”
  • Slovenian: “Republika Altaj”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آلتای جومهوریتی”
  • Southern Altai: “Алтай Республика”
  • Spanish: “Altai”
  • Spanish: “Altái”
  • Spanish: “República de Altái”
  • Sundanese: “Républik Altai”
  • Swahili: “Jamhuri ya Altai”
  • Swedish: “Altajrepubliken”
  • Tagalog: “Altai”
  • Tagalog: “Republika ng Altai”
  • Talysh: “Altaj Respublikə”
  • Tamil: “அல்டை ரிபப்லிக்”
  • Tamil: “அல்த்தாய் குடியரசு”
  • Tatar: “Алтай Республикасы”
  • Telugu: “అల్టాయి రిపబ్లిక్”
  • Thai: “สาธารณรัฐอัลไต”
  • Turkish: “Altay Cumhuriyeti”
  • Turkmen: “Altaý Respublikasy”
  • Udmurt: “Алтай Республика”
  • Uighur: “ئالتاي”
  • Ukrainian: “Республіка Алтай”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Republika Altaj”
  • Urdu: “التائی جمہوریہ”
  • Uzbek: “Oltoy Respublikasi”
  • Veps: “Altajan Tazovaldkund”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Altai”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Republika Altai”
  • Welsh: “Gweriniaeth Altai”
  • Western Frisian: “Altai (republyk)”
  • Western Frisian: “Altai”
  • Western Panjabi: “التائی”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿尔泰共和国”
  • Yakut: “Алтаай Өрөспүүбүлүкэтэ”
  • Yakut: “Алтай Өрөспүүбүлүкэтэ”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿爾泰”

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