Cherkasy

Cherkasy is a city in . It is the capital of the Cherkasy Oblast. The city is the cultural, educational and industrial center. The population is 287,583.
  • City with about 270,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 110 metres (360 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code CKC
  • …was formerly known as “Cherkassy”
  • …dates from 1284
  • Description: city in Ukraine

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cherkasy Arena and St. Michael’s Cathedral.
The is a multi-purpose stadium in Cherkasy, .
St. Michael's Cathedral is an Orthodox church located in Cherkasy in central .
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Latitude
49.4447° or 49° 26′ 41″ north
Longitude
32.0588° or 32° 3′ 32″ east
UN/LOCODE
UA CHR and UA CKC
Open location code
8GXJC3V5+VG
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Cherkasy” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Tsjerkasi”
  • Arabic: “تشيركاسي”
  • Armenian: “Չերկասի”
  • Asturian: “Cherkasy”
  • Azerbaijani: “Çerkası”
  • Bashkir: “Черкассы”
  • Basque: “Txerkasi”
  • Basque: “Txerkasy”
  • Belarusian: “Чаркасы”
  • Bengali: “চেরকেসি”
  • Bulgarian: “Черкаси”
  • Bulgarian: “Черкаск”
  • Burmese: “ချာကာစီ”
  • Catalan: “Txerkassi”
  • Cebuano: “Cherkasy”
  • Chechen: “Черкасси”
  • Chinese: “切尔卡瑟”
  • Chinese: “切爾卡瑟”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Çerkası”
  • Croatian: “Čerkasi”
  • Croatian: “Čerkasy”
  • Czech: “Čerkassy”
  • Czech: “Čerkasy”
  • Danish: “Cherkasy”
  • Danish: “Tjerkassy”
  • Danish: “Tjerkasy”
  • Dutch: “Cherkassy”
  • Dutch: “Tserkassy”
  • Dutch: “Tsjerkasy”
  • Eastern Mari: “Черкассы”
  • Erzya: “Черкассы ош”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉerkasi”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉerkaso”
  • Estonian: “Tšerkassõ”
  • Finnish: “Tšerkasy”
  • Finnish: “Tsherkasy”
  • French: “Tcherkassy”
  • Georgian: “ჩერკასი”
  • German: “Cherkassy”
  • German: “Czerkasy”
  • German: “Tscherkassy”
  • German: “Tscherkasy”
  • Greek: “Τσερκάσι”
  • Gujarati: “ચેર્કસી”
  • Hebrew: “צ’רקאסי”
  • Hebrew: “צ’רקסי”
  • Hindi: “चेरकासि”
  • Hungarian: “Cserkaszi”
  • Indonesian: “Cherkasy”
  • Interlingue: “Cherkasy”
  • Irish: “Cherkasy”
  • Italian: “Čerkasi”
  • Italian: “Čerkassy”
  • Italian: “Čerkasy”
  • Italian: “Cherkasy”
  • Japanese: “チェルカーシ”
  • Japanese: “チェルカースィ”
  • Japanese: “チェルカシ”
  • Japanese: “チェルカスィ”
  • Japanese: “チェルカスイ”
  • Japanese: “チェルカッシ”
  • Japanese: “チェルカッシィ”
  • Japanese: “チェルカッスィ”
  • Japanese: “チェルカッスイ”
  • Kannada: “ಚೆರ್ಕಾಸಿ”
  • Kazakh: “Черкассы”
  • Kirghiz: “Черкассы”
  • Korean: “체르카시”
  • Kotava: “Tcerkasi”
  • Ladin: “Cerkasi”
  • Latin: “Circassium”
  • Latin: “Czercases”
  • Latvian: “Čerkasi”
  • Lithuanian: “Čerkasai”
  • Lombard: “Čerkasy”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Čerkasy”
  • Macedonian: “Черкаси”
  • Malagasy: “Cherkasy”
  • Malay: “Cherkasy”
  • Marathi: “चेरकासी”
  • Mingrelian: “ჩერკასი”
  • Moksha: “Чэркасы”
  • Mongolian: “Черкас хот”
  • Mongolian: “Черкас”
  • Mongolian: “Черкаси”
  • Mongolian: “Черкасы”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tscherkasy”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tsjerkassy”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tsjerkasy”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cherkasy”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tsjerkassy”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tsjerkasy”
  • Norwegian: “Tsjerkasy”
  • Ossetian: “Черкассы”
  • Persian: “چرکاسی”
  • Polish: “Czerkasy”
  • Portuguese: “Chercássi”
  • Portuguese: “Tcherkássi”
  • Romanian: “Cerkasî”
  • Romanian: “Cherkasy”
  • Russian: “Черкассы”
  • Rusyn: “Черкасы”
  • Scots: “Cherkasy”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cherkasy”
  • Serbian: “Čerkasi”
  • Serbian: “Черка́си”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Čerkasi”
  • Sinhala: “චෙක්සේ”
  • Slovak: “Čerkasy”
  • Slovenian: “Čerkasi”
  • South Azerbaijani: “چرکاسی”
  • Spanish: “Cherkasi”
  • Spanish: “Cherkassi”
  • Spanish: “Cherkassy”
  • Spanish: “Cherkasy”
  • Swahili: “Cherkasy”
  • Swedish: “Tjerkassij”
  • Swedish: “Tjerkassy”
  • Swedish: “Tjerkasy”
  • Tamil: “செர்கசி நகரம்”
  • Tamil: “செர்காசி”
  • Tatar: “Черкассы”
  • Tatar: “Черкасы”
  • Telugu: “చెర్కసి”
  • Thai: “แชร์กาซือ”
  • Turkish: “Çerkası”
  • Turkish: “Çerkassi”
  • Turkish: “Cherkassy”
  • Udmurt: “Черкассы”
  • Ukrainian: “Черкаси”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Čerkasy”
  • Urdu: “چیرکاسی”
  • Uzbek: “Cherkassi”
  • Veps: “Čerkasad”
  • Vietnamese: “Cherkassy”
  • Vietnamese: “Cherkasy”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cherkasy”
  • Western Armenian: “Չերքասի”
  • Western Frisian: “Tsjerkasy”
  • Western Panjabi: “چرکیسی”
  • Wu Chinese: “切尔卡瑟”
  • Yakut: “Черкассы”
  • Yue Chinese: “切爾卡瑟”

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