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Buryatia

Buryatia is a republic in . Aside from its cultural attractions and capital, Buryatia is a nature lover's paradise. Almost 80% of the territory is covered by mountains, and more than half the shore-line of Lake Baikal falls under Buryatia's jurisdiction.
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is the capital of Buryatia, known during Soviet times as the Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

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is a town in the Republic of Buryatia, , located on the northern end of at the mouth of the Tyya River, 440 kilometers northwest of and 490 kilometers northeast of . Population: 24,233 ;…

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The Tunka or is a located in south central . It covers a mountainous region centered on the Irkut River valley that continues from the rift valley of southwest to the border of .

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is a rural locality and the administrative center of of the Republic of Buryatia, . Population: 2,555 ; 2,045 ; 1,792 .

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is a small hot spring resort located at the foot of the Sayan Mountains in Buryatia. was hit by flood and mudslide in early July 2014. Although it doesn't seem to affect much town's functionality, the mess it left can be seen anywhere.

Buryatia

Latitude of center
52.7182° or 52° 43′ 6″ north
Longitude of center
109.4921° or 109° 29′ 32″ east
Population
979,000
Elevation
1,200 metres (3,937 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 503080952
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2050915
Wiki­data ID
Q6809
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Buryatia” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Republik Buryat”
  • Afrikaans: “Boerjatië”
  • Albanian: “Burjatia”
  • Amharic: “ቡርያቲያ”
  • Arabic: “بورياتيا”
  • Aragonese: “Buriatia”
  • Armenian: “Բուրյաթիա”
  • Armenian: “Բուրյաթիայի Հանրապետություն”
  • Asturian: “Buriatia”
  • Asturian: “República de Buriatia”
  • Azerbaijani: “Buryatiya”
  • Bashkir: “Бүрәт Республикаһы”
  • Basque: “Buriatia”
  • Belarusian: “Буратыя”
  • Belarusian: “Бурація”
  • Bengali: “বুরিয়াতিয়া প্রজাতন্ত্র”
  • Bosnian: “Burjatija”
  • Breton: “Bouryatia”
  • Bulgarian: “Бурятия”
  • Buriat: “Буряад Улас”
  • Catalan: “Buriàtia”
  • Cebuano: “Respublika Buryatiya”
  • Chechen: “Буряти”
  • Chinese: “Buryatia”
  • Chinese: “布里亚特共和国”
  • Chinese: “布里亞特”
  • Chinese: “布里亞特共和國”
  • Chuvash: “Буряти”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Burât Ulusı”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Burâtiya”
  • Croatian: “Burjatija”
  • Croatian: “Burjatska”
  • Czech: “Burjatská republika”
  • Czech: “Burjatsko”
  • Danish: “Burjatien”
  • Danish: “Republikken Burjatia”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Buryatya”
  • Dutch: “Boerjatië”
  • Eastern Mari: “Бурятий”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بورياتيا”
  • Erzya: “Бурятия Республикась”
  • Esperanto: “Burjatio”
  • Esperanto: “Burjatujo”
  • Estonian: “Burjaatia”
  • Finnish: “Burjatia”
  • French: “Bouriatie”
  • French: “République de Bouriatie”
  • Gagauz: “Buryatiya”
  • Galician: “Buriatia”
  • Galician: “República dos Buriatos”
  • Georgian: “ბურიატეთი”
  • German: “Burjatien”
  • Greek: “Δημοκρατία της Μπουργιατίας”
  • Gujarati: “બુરયટ રિપબ્લિક”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Buryatia Khiung-fò-koet”
  • Hausa: “Buryatia”
  • Hebrew: “בוריאטיה”
  • Hindi: “बुरीयाट गणराज्य”
  • Hindi: “बुर्यातिया”
  • Hindi: “ब्यूरेशिया”
  • Hungarian: “Burjátföld”
  • Ido: “Republiko Buryatia”
  • Inari Sami: “Burjatia täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Burjatia”
  • Indonesian: “Buryatia”
  • Indonesian: “Republik Buryatia”
  • Inupiaq: “Buriiatiaq”
  • Inupiaq: “Buryatia”
  • Irish: “An Bhuiriáit”
  • Italian: “Buriazia”
  • Japanese: “ブリャート共和国”
  • Japanese: “ブリヤート共和国”
  • Kalmyk: “Бурядин таңһч”
  • Kannada: “ಬುರಿತ್ ರಿಪಬ್ಲಿಕ್”
  • Kazakh: “Бурятия”
  • Kirghiz: “Бурятия”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Бурятму”
  • Komi: “Бурятия”
  • Korean: “부랴티야 공화국”
  • Korean: “부랴티야”
  • Latin: “Buriatia”
  • Latvian: “Burjatija”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Republica de Buriatia”
  • Lithuanian: “Buriatija”
  • Lombard: “Buriazia”
  • Luxembourgish: “Burjatien”
  • Macedonian: “Бурјатија”
  • Malay: “Republik Buryatia”
  • Marathi: “बुर्यातिया”
  • Mazanderani: “بوریاتیا جمهوری”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Buryatia”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Buryatia”
  • Mingrelian: “ბურიატეთი”
  • Mongolian: “Буриад”
  • Mongolian: “Бүгд Найрамдах Буриад Улс”
  • Newari: “बुर्यातिया”
  • Northern Frisian: “Burjaatien”
  • Northern Sami: “Burjatia dásseváldi”
  • Northern Sami: “Burjatia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Burjatia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Burjatia”
  • Norwegian: “Burjatia”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Boriàtia”
  • Ossetian: “Буряти”
  • Pampanga: “Buryatia”
  • Persian: “بوریاتیا”
  • Polish: “Buriacja”
  • Portuguese: “Buriácia”
  • Portuguese: “República de Buriácia”
  • Pushto: “بورياتيا جمهوريت”
  • Romanian: “Bureatia”
  • Romanian: “Buriatia”
  • Russia Buriat: “Буряад орон”
  • Russia Buriat: “Буряад Улас”
  • Russia Buriat: “Буряад”
  • Russia Buriat: “Бүгэдэ Найрамдаха Буряад Улас”
  • Russian: “Бурятия”
  • Russian: “Республика Бурятия”
  • Russian: “Респу́блика Буря́тия”
  • Rusyn: “Републіка Бурятія”
  • Scots: “Buryatie”
  • Serbian: “Бурјатија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Burjatija”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Burjatska”
  • Silesian: “Burjacyjŏ”
  • Sindhi: “بورياتيا”
  • Sinhala: “බර්යට් ජනරජය”
  • Skolt Sami: “Burjatia tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Burjatia”
  • Slovak: “Buriatsko”
  • Slovenian: “Burjatija”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بوریاتیا”
  • Spanish: “Buriatia”
  • Sundanese: “Buryatia”
  • Swahili: “Buryatia”
  • Swedish: “Burjatien”
  • Tagalog: “Buryatia”
  • Tagalog: “Buryatiya”
  • Tajik: “Бурятистон”
  • Talysh: “Burjatijə Respublikə”
  • Tamil: “புரியாத்தியா”
  • Tamil: “புர்யட் ரிபப்லிக்”
  • Tatar: “Бурятия”
  • Tatar: “Бүрәтия”
  • Telugu: “బుర్యాట్ రిపబ్లిక్”
  • Thai: “บูเรียตียา”
  • Thai: “บูเรียเตีย”
  • Thai: “สาธารณรัฐบูเรียตียา”
  • Thai: “สาธารณรัฐบูเรียเตีย”
  • Tibetan: “བུར་ཡད་སོག་ཡུལ།”
  • Turkish: “Buryatya”
  • Tuvinian: “Бурят Республика”
  • Tuvinian: “Бурятия”
  • Udmurt: “Бурятия”
  • Uighur: “بۇرياتىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Бурятія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Burjatska republika”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Burjatska”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Republika Burjatska”
  • Urdu: “بوریاتیا”
  • Uzbek: “Buryatiya”
  • Venetian: “Buriàsia”
  • Venetian: “Republica dei Buriati”
  • Veps: “Burätijan Tazovaldkund”
  • Vietnamese: “Buryatia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Republika han Buryatia”
  • Welsh: “Gweriniaeth Buryatia”
  • Western Panjabi: “بریاتیا”
  • Wu Chinese: “布里亚特共和国”
  • Yakut: “Бүрээт Өрөспүүбүлүкэтэ”
  • Yue Chinese: “布里亞特”
  • “ma Pula”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Buryatia”. Photo: Tohuchar, CC BY 3.0.