Chukotka
Chukotka is a region in the Russian Far East and is the northeasternmost region of Russia. Located along the Bering Strait, Chukotka is home to beautiful tundra scenery and the indigenous Chukchi people, butt of many Russian anecdotes.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Anadyr and Wrangel Island.
Anadyr
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Anadyr is a port town and the administrative center of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located at the mouth of the Anadyr River at the tip of a peninsula that protrudes into Anadyrsky Liman.
Wrangel Island
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Wrangel Island is an Arctic island in Chukotka in the Russian Far East. For its rare Arctic tundra ecosystem, home to over 400 rare plant species and large quantities of charismatic megafauna, including Pacific walruses, polar bears, and grey whales, it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Pevek
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Pevek is a town in Chukotka in the extreme northeast of the country and the northernmost town in Russia.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Bilibino and Big Diomede.
Bilibino
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Bilibino is a town and the administrative center of Bilibinsky District in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It is located 625 kilometers northwest of Anadyr, the administrative center of the autonomous okrug.
Big Diomede
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Big Diomede Island is the easternmost point of Russia, in the Bering Strait. While it has no permanent population, it is host to a weather station and a military installation. Little Diomede, only a few kilometers away, is the westernmost part of Alaska.
Provideniya
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Provideniya is an urban locality and the administrative center of Providensky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located on Komsomolskaya Bay in the northeastern part of the autonomous okrug, across the Bering Strait from Alaska, and very close to the International Date Line.
Chukotka
- Type: State with 49,300 residents
- Description: federal subject of Russia
- Also known as: “Chukotka Autonomous Okrug” and “Chukotskiy Natsional’nyy Okrug”
- Neighbors: Alaska, Kamchatka, Magadan Oblast, and Yakutia
- Categories: autonomous okrug of Russia, okrug, federal subject of Russia, and locality
- Location: Russian Far East, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude of center
66.0006° or 66° 0′ 2″ northLongitude of center
169.4901° or 169° 29′ 24″ eastPopulation
49,300Elevation
459 metres (1,506 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 508057959OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Chukotka” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Tsjoekotka”
- Arabic: “أوكروغ تشوكوتكا الذاتية”
- Arabic: “أوكروغ تشوكوتكا الذاتيه”
- Arabic: “تشوكوتكا أوتونوموس أوكروغ”
- Arabic: “تشوكوتكا أوكروغ”
- Armenian: “Չուկոտկայի ինքնավար շրջան”
- Armenian: “Չուկոտկայի ինքնավար օկրուգ”
- Asturian: “Chukotka”
- Asturian: “Distritu Autónomu de Chukotka”
- Azerbaijani: “Çukotka Muxtar Dairəsi”
- Bashkir: “Чукот автономиялы округы”
- Bashkir: “Чукотка автономиялы округы”
- Basque: “Txukotk”
- Basque: “Txukotka”
- Belarusian: “Чукотка”
- Belarusian: “Чукоцкая аўтаномная акруга”
- Bengali: “চুকোটকা স্বায়ত্তশাসিত ওব্লাস্ট”
- Bosnian: “Čukotski autonomni okrug”
- Bulgarian: “Чукотка”
- Bulgarian: “Чукотски автономен окръг”
- Bulgarian: “Чукотски АО”
- Catalan: “Districte autònom de Txukotka”
- Catalan: “Districte Autònom de Txukotka”
- Catalan: “Districte Autònom Txuktxi”
- Catalan: “Ókrug Autònom de Txukotka”
- Catalan: “Ókrug Autònoma de Txukotka”
- Catalan: “Txukotka”
- Cebuano: “Chukotskiy Avtonomnyy Okrug”
- Chechen: “Чукотийн автономни гуо”
- Chechen: “Чукчийн автономин гуо”
- Chinese: “Chukotka Chū-tī-khu”
- Chinese: “楚科奇”
- Chinese: “楚科奇自治区”
- Chinese: “楚科奇自治區”
- Chuvash: “Чукотка автономиллĕ тăрăхĕ”
- Chuvash: “Чукотка автономлă округĕ”
- Crimean Tatar: “Çukotka muhtar bölgesi”
- Croatian: “Čukotka”
- Croatian: “Čukotski autonomni okrug”
- Czech: “Čukotský autonomní okruh”
- Danish: “Tjukotkas autonome okrug”
- Danish: “Tjukotskij autonome okrug”
- Danish: “Tjuktjien”
- Dimli (individual language): “Çukotka”
- Dutch: “Tsjoekotka”
- Eastern Mari: “Чукот автоном йырвел”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تشوكوتكا”
- Erzya: “Чукотонь аулькедьало кужомастор”
- Erzya: “Чукотонь аулькедьало кужомасторось”
- Esperanto: “Ĉukotka aŭtonoma distrikto”
- Estonian: “Tšuktšimaa”
- Finnish: “Tšukotka”
- French: “District autonome de Tchoukotka”
- French: “Tchoukotka”
- Galician: “Chukotka”
- Georgian: “ჩუკოტკის ავტონომიური ოკრუგი”
- German: “Autonomer Kreis der Tschuktschen”
- German: “Tschukotka”
- Greek: “Αυτόνομος θύλακας Τσουκότκα”
- Greek: “Αυτόνομος Θύλακας Τσουκότκα”
- Gujarati: “ચુકોત્કા ઓટોનોમસ ઓક્રગ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Chukotka Chhṳ-chhṳ-khî”
- Hebrew: “צ’וקוטקה”
- Hindi: “चुकोत्का स्वायत्त ओक्रुग”
- Hungarian: “Csukcsföld”
- Ido: “Autonoma distrikto Chukotka”
- Indonesian: “Okrug Otonom Chukotka”
- Indonesian: “Okrug Otonomi Chukotka”
- Inuktitut: “ᐅᕇᓄᓈᑦ”
- Inupiaq: “Chukotka”
- Inupiaq: “Qulliq”
- Irish: “Ceantar Féinrialaitheach na Siuicsíoch”
- Italian: “circondario autonomo della Čukotka”
- Italian: “Circondario autonomo della Čukotka”
- Japanese: “チュクチ自治管区”
- Kalmyk: “Чөкөдин автоном әәмг”
- Kannada: “ಚುಕೊಟ್ಕಾ ಸ್ವಾಯತ್ತ ಒಕ್ರುಗ್”
- Kirghiz: “Чукча автономия округу”
- Komi-Permyak: “Чукотка кытш”
- Korean: “추코트카 자치구”
- Korean: “추코트카”
- Korean: “추콧카”
- Korean: “축치 자치구”
- Korean: “축치”
- Ladin: “Okrug Autonom de Ciucotca”
- Latin: “Districtus autonomus Tschucoticus”
- Latvian: “Čukotkas autonomais apvidus”
- Ligurian: “Okrug Autonòmo da Chukotka”
- Lithuanian: “Čiukčių autonominė apygarda”
- Macedonian: “Чукотски автономен округ”
- Malay: “Negeri autonomi Chukotka”
- Marathi: “चुकोत्का स्वायत्त ऑक्रूग”
- Mazanderani: “چوکوتکا شهگردون اوکروگ”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Chukotka Cê̤ṳ-dê-kṳ̆”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chukotka Chū-tī-khu”
- Mingrelian: “ჩუკოტკაშ ავტონომიური ოკრუგი”
- Moksha: “Чукотонь автономонь округ”
- Mongolian: “Чукоткийн өөртөө засах тойрог”
- Mongolian: “Чукоткын өөртөө засах тойрог”
- Northern Frisian: “Autonoom Kreis faan a Tschuktschen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tsjukotka”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tsjukotka”
- Norwegian: “Tsjukotka”
- Ossetian: “Чукоткæйы автономон зылд”
- Persian: “اوکروگ چوکوتکا اوتونوموس”
- Persian: “چوکوتکا”
- Persian: “ناحیه خودگردان چوکوتکا”
- Polish: “Czukocki Okręg Autonomiczny”
- Polish: “Czukotka”
- Portuguese: “Chukotka”
- Portuguese: “Tchukotka”
- Pushto: “چکوتکا خپلواک اګرک”
- Romanian: “Districtul autonom Ciukotka”
- Russia Buriat: “Чукот автономито тойрог”
- Russia Buriat: “Чукоткын автономито тойрог”
- Russian: “Чукотка”
- Russian: “Чуко́тка”
- Russian: “Чукотский автономный округ”
- Russian: “Чукотский Автономный Округ”
- Russian: “Чукотский АО”
- Russian: “Чукотский национальный округ”
- Russian: “Чукотский НО”
- Scots: “Chukotka Autonomous Okrug”
- Serbian: “Чукотка”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Čukotski autonomni okrug”
- Sinhala: “චුකොට්කා ස්වාධීන පළාත”
- Slovak: “Čukotka”
- Slovenian: “Čukotka”
- South Azerbaijani: “چوکوتکا”
- Spanish: “Chukotka”
- Spanish: “Distrito autónomo de Chukotka”
- Swahili: “Okrug huru ya Chukotka”
- Swedish: “Tjuktjien”
- Tagalog: “Chukotka Autonomous Okrug”
- Talysh: “Cukotka muxtarə okrug”
- Talysh: “Cukotka”
- Talysh: “Çukotka”
- Tamil: “சுகோட்க ஆடோனோமோஸ் ஓக்ருகி”
- Tamil: “சுகோத்கா தன்னாட்சி வட்டாரம்”
- Tatar: “Чукот айрат бүлгесе”
- Tatar: “Чукотка автономияле округы”
- Telugu: “చుకోట్కా అటానమస్ ఓకుర్గ్”
- Thai: “เขตปกครองตนเองชูคอตคา”
- Turkish: “Çukotka Özerk Okrugu”
- Udmurt: “Чукотка автономной округ”
- Ukrainian: “Чукотський автономний округ”
- Upper Sorbian: “Awtonomny wokrjes Čukčow”
- Urdu: “چوکوتکا خود مختار آکرگ”
- Uzbek: “Chukotka muhtor okrugi”
- Uzbek: “Chukotka muxtor okrugi”
- Venetian: “Sircondario autonomo di Čukotka”
- Veps: “Čukotkan avtonomine ümbrik”
- Vietnamese: “Khu tự trị Chukotka”
- Waray (Philippines): “Autonomo Okrug han Chukotka”
- Welsh: “Ocrwg Ymreolaethol Chukotka”
- Western Panjabi: “چوکوتکا”
- Wu Chinese: “楚科奇自治区”
- Yakut: “Чукотка автономиялаах уокуруга”
- Yue Chinese: “楚科奇自治區”
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