Chuvashia
Chuvashia is a sovereign republic in the Upper Volga, bordering Mordovia to the southwest, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast to the west, Mari El to the north, Tatarstan to the east, and Ulyanovsk Oblast to the south.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Cheboksary.
Cheboksary
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Cheboksary is the capital of Chuvashia in the Volga Region of the Russian Federation. About 600,000 people live here and in the nearby satellite city Novocheboksarsk.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Koltsovka.
Chuvashia
- Type: State with 1,230,000 residents
- Description: federal subject of Russia
- Also known as: “Chavash Respubliki”, “Chuvash A.S.S.R.”, “Chuvash Republic”, “Chuvash Republic — Chuvashia”, “Chuvashiya”, “Chuvashiya Republic”, “Chuvashskaya ASSR”, “Chuvashskaya Avtonomnaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika”, and “Republic of Chuvashia”
- Neighbors: Mari El, Mordovia, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Tatarstan, and Ulyanovsk Oblast
- Categories: republic of Russia, federal subject of Russia, and locality
- Location: Volga Region, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude
55.426° or 55° 25′ 34″ northLongitude
47.0849° or 47° 5′ 6″ eastPopulation
1,230,000Elevation
163 metres (535 feet)Open location code
9H79C3GM+9XOpenStreetMap ID
node 607014868OpenStreetMap feature
place=stateGeoNames ID
567395Wikidata ID
Q5466
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Chuvashia” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Republik Chuvash”
- Afrikaans: “Tsjoewasjië”
- Albanian: “Çuvashia”
- Amharic: “ቹቫሺያ”
- Arabic: “المسيحية في تشوفاشيا”
- Arabic: “تشوفاشيا”
- Armenian: “Չուվաշիա”
- Asturian: “Chuvasia”
- Asturian: “República de Chuvasia”
- Azerbaijani: “Çuvaşıstan”
- Bashkir: “Сыуашстан”
- Basque: “Txuvaxia”
- Belarusian: “Чувашыя”
- Bengali: “চুভাশিয়া”
- Betawi: “Cuwasi”
- Betawi: “Kiblik Cuwasi”
- Bosnian: “Čuvašija”
- Breton: “Tchouvachia”
- Bulgarian: “Чувашия”
- Catalan: “República de Txuvàixia”
- Catalan: “Txuvàixia”
- Cebuano: “Chuvashskaya Respublika”
- Chechen: “Чуваши”
- Chinese: “Chuvashia”
- Chinese: “楚瓦什”
- Chinese: “楚瓦什共和国”
- Chinese: “楚瓦什共和國”
- Chuvash: “Чăваш Республики”
- Crimean Tatar: “Çuvaşistan”
- Crimean Tatar: “Çuvaşiya”
- Croatian: “Čuvašija”
- Croatian: “Čuvaška”
- Czech: “Čuvašská republika”
- Czech: “Čuvašsko”
- Danish: “Republikken Tjuvasjien”
- Danish: “Tjuvasjien”
- Dimli (individual language): “Çuwaşıstan”
- Dutch: “Tsjoevasjië”
- Eastern Mari: “Чуваший”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تشوڤاشيا”
- Erzya: “Ветькень Республикась”
- Erzya: “Чувашонь Республикась”
- Esperanto: “Ĉuvaŝio”
- Esperanto: “Ĉuvaŝujo”
- Estonian: “Tšuvaššia”
- Finnish: “Tšuvassia”
- French: “République de Tchouvachie”
- French: “Tchouvachie”
- Gagauz: “Çuvaşiya”
- Galician: “Chuvaquia”
- Galician: “República dos Chuvaxos”
- Georgian: “ჩუვაშეთი”
- German: “Tschuwaschien”
- Greek: “Δημοκρατία των Τσουβάς — ή Τσουβασία”
- Greek: “Τσουβασία”
- Gujarati: “ચુવાશ રિપબ્લિક”
- Hakka Chinese: “Chuvash Khiung-fò-koet”
- Hebrew: “צ’ובשיה”
- Hindi: “चुवैश गणतंत्र”
- Hungarian: “Csuvasföld”
- Ido: “Republiko Chuvashia”
- Indonesian: “Chuvashia”
- Indonesian: “Republik Chuvashia”
- Inupiaq: “Sauvasiiq”
- Inupiaq: “Suvasia”
- Irish: “An tSuvais”
- Irish: “Poblacht na Suvaise”
- Italian: “Ciuvascia”
- Italian: “Čuvašija”
- Italian: “Repubblica Ciuvascia”
- Japanese: “チュヴァシ共和国”
- Kalmyk: “Чәвәш таңһч”
- Kannada: “ಚುವಾಶ್ ರಿಪಬ್ಲಿಕ್”
- Kazakh: “Чувашия”
- Kinyarwanda: “Cuvashiya”
- Kirghiz: “Чуваш республикасы”
- Kirghiz: “Чувашия”
- Kirghiz: “Чувашстан”
- Komering: “Chuvashia”
- Komi-Permyak: “Чувашму”
- Komi: “Чувашия”
- Korean: “추바시 공화국 - 추바시야”
- Korean: “추바시 공화국”
- Korean: “추바시야 공화국”
- Korean: “추바시야”
- Kurdish: “Çuvaşistan”
- Latin: “Tschuvaschia”
- Latin: “Tschuvassia”
- Latvian: “Čuvašija”
- Latvian: “Čuvašijas Republika”
- Lithuanian: “Čiuvašija”
- Lombard: “Ciuvascia”
- Macedonian: “Чувашија”
- Malay: “Chuvashia”
- Marathi: “चुवाशिया प्रजासत्ताक”
- Marathi: “चुवाशिया”
- Mazanderani: “چوواش”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Chuvashia”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chuvashia”
- Mingrelian: “ჩუვაშეთი”
- Moksha: “Чувашмастор”
- Mongolian: “Чуваш”
- Northern Frisian: “Tschuwaschien”
- Northern Sami: “Tšuvassia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tsjuvasjia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tsjuvasjia”
- Norwegian: “Tsjuvasjia”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Chovàshia”
- Ossetian: “Чуваши”
- Ossetian: “Чувашийы Республикæ”
- Pampanga: “Chuvashia”
- Persian: “چواشستان”
- Persian: “چوواشستان”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Shuwashya”
- Polish: “Czuwaszja”
- Portuguese: “Chuváchia”
- Portuguese: “Chuváxia”
- Pushto: “چواشيا”
- Romanian: “Ciuvașia”
- Russia Buriat: “Чавааш Республика”
- Russia Buriat: “Чуваши”
- Russian: “республика Чувашия”
- Russian: “Республика Чувашия”
- Russian: “Чувашия”
- Russian: “Чувашская республика”
- Russian: “Чувашская Республика”
- Scots: “Chuvashie”
- Serbian: “Чувашија”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Čuvašija”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Čuvaška”
- Sicilian: “Ciuvascia”
- Silesian: “Czuwaszyjŏ”
- Sinhala: “චුවාෂ් ජනරජය”
- Slovak: “Čuvašsko”
- Slovenian: “Čuvašija”
- South Azerbaijani: “چوواش”
- South Azerbaijani: “چوواشیستان”
- Spanish: “Chuvasia”
- Sundanese: “Chuvashia”
- Swahili: “Chuvashia”
- Swedish: “Tjuvasjien”
- Swedish: “Tjuvasjiska republiken”
- Swedish: “Tjuvasjrepubliken”
- Tagalog: “Chuvashia”
- Tagalog: “Chuvasya”
- Tajik: “Чувашистон”
- Talysh: “Cuvašija”
- Talysh: “Çuvaşiya”
- Tamil: “சுவாசியா”
- Tamil: “சுவாஷ் ரிபப்லிக்”
- Tatar: “Чуаш Республикасы”
- Tatar: “Чуашстан”
- Telugu: “చువాశ్ రిపబ్లిక్”
- Thai: “ชูวาเชีย”
- Thai: “สาธารณรัฐชูวัช”
- Turkish: “Çuvaşistan”
- Turkmen: “Çuwaşystan”
- Udmurt: “Чувашия”
- Uighur: “چۇۋاشىيە”
- Ukrainian: “Чуваська Республіка”
- Ukrainian: “Чувашія”
- Upper Sorbian: “Čuwašiska”
- Urdu: “چوواشیا”
- Uzbek: “Chuvashiya”
- Veps: “Čuvašijan Tazovaldkund”
- Vietnamese: “Chuvashia”
- Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Chuvash”
- Võro: “Tšuvašimaa”
- Waray (Philippines): “Chuvashia”
- Western Mari: “Суасламары Республика”
- Western Panjabi: “چوواشیا”
- Wu Chinese: “楚瓦什共和国”
- Yakut: “Чувашия”
- Yue Chinese: “楚瓦什”
- “Chuvasia”
- “Ciuvàsa”
- “Repóblica Ciuvàsa”
- “Tšuvašimaa”
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