Ukraine
Central Ukraine
Kyiv Oblast

Chernobyl

Chernobyl or Chornobyl is a town in , and known infamously for the accident in the nearby nuclear power plant at Pripyat on 26 April 1986.
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  • Type: Town with 550 residents
  • Description: partially abandoned city in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine
  • Also known as: “Chernobil”, “Chernobyl’”, “Chornobyl”, “Chornobyl‘”, and “Chornobyl’”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Star of Wormwood memorial complex.

Park
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is a park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Zales’ye.

Locality
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is a locality.

Chernobyl

Latitude
51.2705° or 51° 16′ 14″ north
Longitude
30.2196° or 30° 13′ 10″ east
Population
550
Elevation
129 metres (423 feet)
United Nations Location Code
UA CHE
Open location code
9G3G76C9+6R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 127834997
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
710403
Wiki­data ID
Q129677
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Chernobyl” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Tsjornobil”
  • Albanian: “Çernobili”
  • Albanian: “Chernobyl”
  • Arabic: “تشيرنوبل”
  • Arabic: “تشيرنوبيل”
  • Arabic: “شيرنوبل”
  • Arabic: “مفاعل تشرنوبيل”
  • Arabic: “مفاعل تشيرنوبيل”
  • Armenian: “Չեռնոբիլ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Çernobıl”
  • Bashkir: “Чернобыль”
  • Basque: “Txernobil”
  • Basque: “Txernobyl”
  • Basque: “Txornobyl”
  • Belarusian: “Чарнобыль”
  • Bosnian: “Černobil”
  • Bosnian: “Černobilj”
  • Breton: “Tchernobyl”
  • Breton: “Tchornobyl”
  • Bulgarian: “Чернобил”
  • Catalan: “Chernobyl”
  • Catalan: “Txernòbil”
  • Catalan: “Txernóbyl”
  • Catalan: “Txernòbyl”
  • Catalan: “Txornobil”
  • Catalan: “Txornòbil”
  • Catalan: “Txornòbill”
  • Catalan: “Txornobyl”
  • Catalan: “Txornóbyl”
  • Catalan: “Txornòbyl”
  • Catalan: “Txornòbyll”
  • Catalan: “Xernòbil”
  • Chechen: “Чернобыль”
  • Chinese: “切尔诺贝利”
  • Chinese: “切爾諾貝利”
  • Chinese: “切爾諾貝爾”
  • Chinese: “車諾比”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Çornobıl”
  • Croatian: “Černobil”
  • Croatian: “Černobilj”
  • Croatian: “Čornobylj”
  • Czech: “Černobyl”
  • Czech: “Čornobyl”
  • Danish: “Chernobyl”
  • Danish: “Tjernobyl”
  • Danish: “Tjornobyl”
  • Dutch: “Chernobyl”
  • Dutch: “Tjernobil”
  • Dutch: “Tjernobyl”
  • Dutch: “Tsjenobyl”
  • Dutch: “Tsjernobiel”
  • Dutch: “Tsjernobil”
  • Dutch: “Tsjernobyl”
  • Dutch: “Tsjornobyl”
  • Eastern Mari: “Чернобыль”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تشيرنوبل”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉernobil”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉernobilo”
  • Estonian: “Chernobyl”
  • Estonian: “Tšernobõl”
  • Estonian: “Tšornobõl”
  • Finnish: “Tsernobyl”
  • Finnish: “Tšernobyl”
  • Finnish: “Tshernobyl”
  • Finnish: “Tshornobyl”
  • Finnish: “Tšornobyl”
  • French: “Chornobyl”
  • French: “Tchernobil”
  • French: “Tchornobil”
  • French: “Tchornobyl”
  • French: “Чорнобиль”
  • French: “Tchernobyl” (historical)
  • Galician: “Chernóbil”
  • Georgian: “ჩერნობილი”
  • German: “Czarnobyl”
  • German: “Tschernobyl”
  • German: “Tschornobyl”
  • Greek: “Τσερνόμπιλ”
  • Greek: “Τσορνόμπιλ”
  • Hebrew: “טשרנוביל”
  • Hebrew: “צ’רנוביל”
  • Hebrew: “צרנוביל”
  • Hindi: “चेरनोबिल”
  • Hungarian: “Csernobil”
  • Icelandic: “Tsjernobyl”
  • Ido: “Chornobil”
  • Indonesian: “Chernobyl”
  • Indonesian: “Chornobyl”
  • Interlingua: “Čornobyl”
  • Italian: “Cernobil”
  • Italian: “Černobyl‘”
  • Italian: “Černobyl’”
  • Italian: “Cernobyl”
  • Italian: “Chernobyl”
  • Italian: “Čornobyl”
  • Japanese: “チェルノブイリ”
  • Japanese: “チョルノービリ”
  • Japanese: “チョルノーブィリ”
  • Japanese: “チョルノブィリ”
  • Javanese: “Chernobyl”
  • Korean: “체르노빌”
  • Korean: “초르노빌”
  • Ladino: “Chernobil”
  • Latin: “Czernobela”
  • Latvian: “Černobiļa”
  • Latvian: “Čornobiļa”
  • Lithuanian: “Černobilis”
  • Lithuanian: “Černobylis”
  • Lithuanian: “Čornòbylis”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tschernobyl”
  • Macedonian: “Чернобил”
  • Malagasy: “Chernobyl”
  • Malagasy: “Tchernobyl”
  • Malay: “Chernobyl”
  • Malay: “Chornobyl”
  • Manx: “Chornobyl”
  • Mazanderani: “چرنوبیل”
  • Mingrelian: “ჩერნობილი”
  • Mongolian: “Чернобыль”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chernobyl”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tjernobyl”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tsjernobyl”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tsjornobyl”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chernobyl”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tsjernobyl” (historical)
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tsjornobyl”
  • Norwegian: “Tsjernobyl” (historical)
  • Norwegian: “Tsjornobyl”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Chornobyl”
  • Ossetian: “Чернобыль”
  • Persian: “چرنوبيل”
  • Persian: “چرنوبیل”
  • Polish: “Czarnobyl”
  • Portuguese: “Chernobil”
  • Portuguese: “Chernóbil”
  • Portuguese: “Chernobyl”
  • Portuguese: “Chornobil”
  • Portuguese: “Tchernobil”
  • Portuguese: “Tchernobyl”
  • Romanian: “Cernobâl”
  • Romanian: “Cernobil”
  • Romanian: “Cernobîl”
  • Romanian: “Ciornobîl”
  • Romanian: “Чернобыл”
  • Russian: “Чернобыль”
  • Rusyn: “Чорнобыль”
  • Samogitian: “Černobylis”
  • Samogitian: “Černuobīlis”
  • Scots: “Chernobyl”
  • Scots: “Chornobyl”
  • Serbian: “Černobil”
  • Serbian: “Černobilj”
  • Serbian: “Чернобиљ”
  • Serbian: “Чорнобиль”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Černobil”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Černobilj”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Chernobil”
  • Sicilian: “Chernobyl”
  • Slovak: “Černobyľ”
  • Slovenian: “Černobil”
  • Slovenian: “Čornobil”
  • South Azerbaijani: “چرنوبیل”
  • Spanish: “Chernobil”
  • Spanish: “Chernobíl”
  • Spanish: “Chernóbil”
  • Spanish: “Chernobyl”
  • Spanish: “Chornobil”
  • Spanish: “Chornóbil”
  • Swedish: “Chernobyl”
  • Swedish: “Opatjitji”
  • Swedish: “Tjenobyl”
  • Swedish: “Tjernobyl”
  • Swedish: “Tjornobil”
  • Swedish: “Tjornobyl”
  • Tagalog: “Chernobyl”
  • Tatar: “Чорнобыль”
  • Thai: “ชอร์นอบึล”
  • Turkish: “Cernobil”
  • Turkish: “Çernobil”
  • Turkish: “Chernobyl”
  • Turkmen: “Çernobil”
  • Turkmen: “Çernobyl”
  • Ukrainian: “Chornobyl”
  • Ukrainian: “Чорнобиль”
  • Ukrainian: “Чорнобильська зона”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Černobyl”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Čornobyl”
  • Urdu: “چرنوبل”
  • Uzbek: “Chernobil”
  • Vietnamese: “Chernobyl”
  • Vietnamese: “Chornobyl”
  • Vietnamese: “Tréc-nô-bưn”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chernobyl”
  • Western Frisian: “Tsjernobyl”
  • Wu Chinese: “切尔诺贝利”
  • Xhosa: “Chernobyl”
  • Yakut: “Чернобыль”
  • Yiddish: “טשערנאביל”
  • Yiddish: “טשערנאָביל”
  • Yiddish: “טשערנאבל”
  • Yue Chinese: “切爾諾貝爾”
  • “Černuobīlis”
  • “Чернобыл”

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