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Eastern Siberia
Zabaykalsky Krai

Chita

Chita is in . This former restricted military city has developed quite rapidly, if unevenly, because of the city's position on a main land-trading route with China.
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  • Type: City with 333,000 residents
  • Description: city in eastern Russia
  • Also known as: “Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai”, “Плотбище”, “Плоты”, and “Читинская слобода”
  • Address: городской округ Чита

Places of Interest

Highlights include Chitinsky Datsan.

Buddhist temple
Photo: LxAndrew, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a Buddhist temple.

Chita

Latitude
52.0334° or 52° 2′ 0″ north
Longitude
113.5009° or 113° 30′ 3″ east
Population
333,000
Elevation
690 metres (2,264 feet)
Inception
1650
IATA airport code
HTA
United Nations Location Code
RU HTA
Open location code
9P4M2GM2+99
Open­Street­Map ID
node 251645471
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2025339
Wiki­data ID
Q53139
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Satellite Map

Discover Chita from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Chita” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Tsjita”
  • Albanian: “Çita”
  • Arabic: “تشيتا”
  • Armenian: “Չիտա”
  • Asturian: “Tchita”
  • Azerbaijani: “Çita”
  • Bashkir: “Чита”
  • Basque: “Txita”
  • Belarusian: “Чыта”
  • Bengali: “চিটা”
  • Bosnian: “Chita”
  • Bulgarian: “Чита”
  • Catalan: “Txità”
  • Cebuano: “Chita (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Chita”
  • Chechen: “Чита”
  • Chinese: “Chita”
  • Chinese: “赤塔”
  • Chuvash: “Чита”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Çita”
  • Croatian: “Čita”
  • Czech: “Čita”
  • Danish: “Tjita”
  • Dutch: “Tsjita”
  • Eastern Mari: “Чита”
  • Erzya: “Чита ош”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉita”
  • Estonian: “Tšita”
  • Finnish: “Tšita”
  • French: “Tchita”
  • Georgian: “ჩიტა”
  • German: “Chita”
  • German: “Tschita”
  • Greek: “Τσιτά”
  • Gujarati: “ચીટા”
  • Hebrew: “צ’יטה”
  • Hindi: “चिता”
  • Hungarian: “Csita”
  • Icelandic: “Tsjíta”
  • Indonesian: “Chita, Zabaykalsky”
  • Indonesian: “Chita”
  • Irish: “Chita”
  • Italian: “Čita”
  • Japanese: “チタ”
  • Kannada: “ಚೀಟ”
  • Kazakh: “Чита”
  • Kirghiz: “Чита”
  • Komi: “Чита”
  • Korean: “치타”
  • Kotava: “Tcita”
  • Ladin: “Cita (zità)”
  • Ladin: “Cita”
  • Latin: “Tschita”
  • Latvian: “Čita”
  • Lithuanian: “Čita”
  • Luxembourgish: “Tschita”
  • Macedonian: “Чита”
  • Malay: “Chita”
  • Marathi: “चिता”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Chita (Zabaykalsky Pian-kiong-khu)”
  • Mingrelian: “ჩიტა”
  • Mongolian: “Чит”
  • Mongolian: “Чита”
  • Northern Frisian: “Tschita”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tsjita”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tsjita”
  • Norwegian: “Tsjita”
  • Ossetian: “Чита”
  • Persian: “چیتا”
  • Polish: “Czyta”
  • Portuguese: “Chita”
  • Portuguese: “Tchita”
  • Romanian: “Cita”
  • Russia Buriat: “Шэтэ”
  • Russian: “Чита”
  • Scots: “Chita”
  • Serbian: “Чита”
  • Silesian: “Czita”
  • Sinhala: “චිතා”
  • Slovak: “Čita”
  • Slovenian: “Čita, Rusija”
  • Slovenian: “Čita”
  • South Azerbaijani: “چیتا”
  • Spanish: “Chita”
  • Spanish: “Chitá”
  • Swahili: “Chita, Zabaykalskiy Krai”
  • Swahili: “Chita”
  • Swedish: “Tjita”
  • Tagalog: “Chita”
  • Tajik: “Чита”
  • Talysh: “Cita”
  • Talysh: “Çita”
  • Tamil: “சிதா”
  • Tatar: “Чита”
  • Telugu: “చిటా”
  • Thai: “ชิตา”
  • Thai: “ชีตา”
  • Turkish: “Çita, Rusya”
  • Turkish: “Çita”
  • Turkmen: “Çita”
  • Tuvinian: “Чита”
  • Udmurt: “Чита”
  • Ukrainian: “Чита”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Čita”
  • Urdu: “چیتا، زابایکالسکی کرائی”
  • Uzbek: “Chita”
  • Venetian: “Čita”
  • Veps: “Čit”
  • Vietnamese: “Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai”
  • Vietnamese: “Chita”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chita”
  • Western Panjabi: “چیتا”
  • Wu Chinese: “赤塔”
  • Yakut: “Чита”
  • Yue Chinese: “赤塔”

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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 “Chita”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.