Baikonur
Baikonur is a city in Kazakhstan on the northern bank of the Syr Darya river. It is currently leased and administered by the Russian Federation as an enclave until 2050.Photo: NASA, Public domain.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: City with 33,800 residents
- Description: city in Kazakhstan, administered by Russia
- Also known as: “Zarya”
- Historically known as: “Leninsk”, “Leninskiy”, “Tyuratam”, and “Zvezdograd”
- Address: Байконыр Г.А.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Baikonur CHP station.
Baikonur CHP station
Power station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Baikonur CHP station is a power station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tyuratam.
Tyuratam
Village
Photo: Георгий Долгопский, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Töretam is a station on the Trans-Aral Railway, located in Kazakhstan. The name means "Töre's grave" in the Kazakh language. Töre, or more formally, Töre-Baba, was a nobleman and descendant of Genghis Khan.
Baikonur
- Categories: federal city of Russia, city of republican significance, and locality
- Location: Kazakh Desert, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
45.6322° or 45° 37′ 56″ northLongitude
63.3209° or 63° 19′ 15″ eastPopulation
33,800Elevation
730 metres (2,395 feet)IATA airport code
BXYUnited Nations Location Code
KZ BKZOpen location code
8JQ5J8JC+V9OpenStreetMap ID
node 271092323OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1521368Wikidata ID
Q165413
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Baikonur” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بايكونور”
- Arabic: “بيكونور”
- Armenian: “Բայկոնուր (քաղաք)”
- Armenian: “Բայկոնուր”
- Asturian: “Baikonur”
- Awadhi: “बायकोनूर”
- Azerbaijani: “Baykonur”
- Bashkir: “Байҡоңыр”
- Bashkir: “Байҡуңыр”
- Basque: “Baikonur”
- Belarusian: “Байканур (горад)”
- Belarusian: “Байканур”
- Belarusian: “Байканыр”
- Bengali: “বাইকুনোর”
- Bulgarian: “Байконур”
- Catalan: “Baikonur”
- Catalan: “Leninsk”
- Cebuano: “Bayqongyr Qalasy”
- Central Kurdish: “بایکۆنور”
- Chechen: “Байконыр”
- Chinese: “拜哥奴”
- Chinese: “拜科努”
- Chinese: “拜科努尔”
- Chinese: “拜科努爾”
- Chinese: “白寇努爾”
- Chinese: “白寇奴爾”
- Croatian: “Bajkonur”
- Croatian: “Lenjinsk”
- Czech: “Bajkonur”
- Czech: “Leninsk”
- Danish: “Bajkonur”
- Dutch: “Baikonoer”
- Dutch: “Baikonur”
- Dutch: “Bajkonoer”
- Eastern Mari: “Байконур”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بايكونور”
- Esperanto: “Baikonur”
- Esperanto: “Bajkonur”
- Esperanto: “Bajkonuro”
- Estonian: “Bajkongõr”
- Estonian: “Bayqoñır”
- Finnish: “Baikonur”
- Finnish: “Tyuratam”
- French: “Baikonour”
- French: “Baïkonour”
- French: “Baiqongyr”
- Galician: “Baikonur”
- Galician: “Cosmódromo de Baikonur”
- Georgian: “ბაიკონური”
- German: “Baikonur”
- German: “Baiqongyr”
- German: “Bayqonir”
- German: “Bayqoñır”
- German: “Kosmodrom Baikonur”
- German: “Tjura Tam”
- German: “Tjuratam”
- Greek: “Μπαϊκονούρ”
- Gujarati: “બેકોનુર”
- Hebrew: “באיקונור”
- Hebrew: “בייקונור”
- Hebrew: “לנינסק”
- Hindi: “बायकोनूर”
- Hindi: “बैकोनूर”
- Hungarian: “Bajkonur”
- Ido: “Baýqoñır (urbo)”
- Ido: “Baýqoñır”
- Indonesian: “Baikonur”
- Indonesian: “Baykonur”
- Irish: “Baikonur”
- Italian: “Baikonur”
- Italian: “Baıqońyr”
- Italian: “Bajkonur”
- Italian: “Bayqoñyr”
- Japanese: “バイコヌール”
- Japanese: “レニンスク”
- Kannada: “ಬೈಕೊನೂರ್”
- Kazakh: “Baýqoñır”
- Kazakh: “Байқоңыр”
- Kazakh: “بايقوڭىر”
- Korean: “바이코누르”
- Latvian: “Baikonira”
- Latvian: “Baikonura”
- Latvian: “Ļeņinska”
- Lithuanian: “Baikonuras”
- Lithuanian: “Baikonūras”
- Lithuanian: “Baikonyras”
- Luxembourgish: “Baikonur”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Baikonur”
- Macedonian: “Бајконур”
- Malay: “Baikonur”
- Marathi: “बैकानूर”
- Marathi: “बैकोनूर”
- Northern Frisian: “Baikonur”
- Northern Frisian: “Baiqongyr”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Baikonur”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bajkonur”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bajkonur”
- Norwegian: “Baikonur”
- Norwegian: “Bajkonur”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Baikonor”
- Ossetian: “Байконур (сахар)”
- Ossetian: “Байконур”
- Panjabi: “ਬਾਈਕੋਨਰ”
- Panjabi: “ਬਾਈਕੋਨੂਰ”
- Persian: “بایقونور، قزاقستان”
- Persian: “بایقونور”
- Persian: “بایکونور”
- Polish: “Bajkonur”
- Portuguese: “Baikonur”
- Portuguese: “Bayqonyr”
- Romanian: “Baikonur”
- Russian: “Байконур”
- Russian: “Байкону́р”
- Russian: “Байконыр”
- Russian: “Звездоград”
- Russian: “Ленинск” (historical)
- Scots: “Baikonur”
- Serbian: “Bajkonur”
- Serbian: “Байкону́р”
- Serbian: “Бајконур”
- Serbian: “Лењинск”
- Serbian: “Тјуратам”
- Sinhala: “බයිකොනුර්”
- Sinhala: “බයිකොනූර්”
- Slovak: “Bajkonur”
- Slovenian: “Bajkonur”
- South Azerbaijani: “بايكونور”
- South Azerbaijani: “بایکونور”
- Spanish: “Baikonur”
- Swahili: “Baikonur”
- Swedish: “Baikonur”
- Swedish: “Baikonurkosmodromen”
- Swedish: “Bajkonir”
- Swedish: “Bajkonır”
- Swedish: “Bajkonur”
- Swedish: “Bajkonurkosmodromen”
- Swedish: “Bajkonyr”
- Swedish: “Bajqongir”
- Swedish: “Bajqongïr”
- Swedish: “Bajqongyr”
- Swedish: “Bajqonyr”
- Swedish: “Baykonur”
- Swedish: “Baykonyr”
- Swedish: “Bayqongyr”
- Swedish: “Bayqonir”
- Swedish: “Leninsk”
- Swedish: “Tjuratam”
- Tajik: “Байконур (шаҳр)”
- Tajik: “Байконур”
- Tamil: “பைகோனுர்”
- Tamil: “பைக்கனூர்”
- Tatar: “Байконур”
- Tatar: “Байкоңгыр”
- Tatar: “Байкуңгыр”
- Telugu: “బైకోనూర్”
- Thai: “บัยกะนูร์”
- Thai: “บัยโกเงอร์”
- Turkish: “Baikonur”
- Turkish: “Baykonur”
- Turkish: “Leninsk”
- Ukrainian: “Байконир”
- Ukrainian: “Байконур”
- Upper Sorbian: “Bajkonur”
- Urdu: “بایکونور”
- Uzbek: “Boyqoʻngʻir”
- Veps: “Baikonur”
- Vietnamese: “Baikonur”
- Walloon: “Baykonour”
- Waray (Philippines): “Baikonur”
- Western Panjabi: “بیکانور”
- Wu Chinese: “拜科努尔”
- Yue Chinese: “拜哥奴”
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