Crimea
Crimea is a peninsula jutting into the Black Sea south of Ukraine. Long known for its idyllic and luxurious beach resorts, it was once a playground for the Imperial Russian and Soviet elites.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Sevastopol and Simferopol.
Sevastopol
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Sevastopol, also known as Sebastopol, is an important and historical port on the Black Sea in Crimea. It is also a popular seaside resort and tourist destination, mainly for visitors from the Commonwealth of Independent States countries.
Simferopol
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Simferopol, also known as Aqmescit, is the second-largest city on the Crimean Peninsula. The city, along with the rest of Crimea, is internationally recognized as part of Ukraine, but controlled by Russia.
Yalta
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Yalta is a resort city on the south coast of the Crimean Peninsula surrounded by the Black Sea. It serves as the administrative center of Yalta Municipality, one of the regions within Crimea.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Kerch and Feodosiya.
Kerch
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Kerch, is a city on the Kerch Peninsula of eastern Crimea. It was decorated by the Soviet Union as a "Hero City" of World War II.
Feodosiya
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Feodosiya is a beautiful, quaint little resort town on the Black Sea coast in Crimea. As a highly prized getaway spot for Russian-speaking vacationers, Feodosiya's population swells in the late spring, summer, and early fall months.
Yevpatoria
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Yevpatoria is a city in western Crimea, north of Kalamita Bay. Yevpatoria serves as the administrative center of Yevpatoria Municipality, one of the districts into which Crimea is divided. It had a population of 105,719.
Bakhchysarai
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Bakhchysarai is in Crimea. Once the capital of the Crimean Tatar Khanate, it is undergoing a steady cultural rebirth since the Tatars were allowed to return from Uzbekistan in the early 1990s.
Alushta
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Alushta or Aluşta is a city of regional significance on the southern coast of the Crimean peninsula which is within the Republic of Crimea, a region internationally claimed as territory of Ukraine, but administered by the Russian Federation.
Sudak
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Sudak is in the Crimea. It was once a fairly important city; Marco Polo mentions it and the Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta rated it one of the world's four great ports, as of the early 1300s.
Alupka
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Alupka is a city in Crimea. It is famous as a beach resort, and a favourite holiday destination for many citizens of the former Soviet countries.
Balaklava
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Balaklava is a settlement on the Crimean Peninsula and part of the city of Sevastopol. It is an administrative center of Balaklavsky District that used to be part of the Crimean Oblast before it was transferred to Sevastopol Municipality. Population: 18,649.
Shcholkine
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Shcholkine is a town in eastern part of Crimean Peninsula. Shcholkine is situated on the shore of Sea of Azov.
Gurzuf
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Gurzuf is a resort town in Crimea. Its small size and Ottoman flavour make it distinct from nearby Yalta.
Koktebel
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Koktebel is in the Crimea. Also known as Planerskoye, is one of the most popular resort townlets in the Crimea, situated on the shore of the Black Sea about halfway between Feodosiya and Sudak.
Novyi Svet
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Novyi Svet is a small resort town in the Crimea. The town is on the Black Sea coast with rocky mountains around separating it from the civilization. While being a resort place it's also known for its winery, especially for the sparkling wine production.
Crimea
- Type: peninsula with 1,910,000 residents
- Description: Eastern European peninsula, in the Black Sea and Sea of Azov, disputed between Ukraine (de jure) and Russia (de facto)
- Also known as: “Autonomous Republic of Crimea”, “Cimmeria”, “Crim.”, “Crimean P.”, “Crimean Peninsula”, “Kimmeria”, “Kimmería”, “Kirim”, “Qırım”, “Republic of Crimea”, “República Autônoma da Crimeia”, “Taurica”, “Taurike”, “Taurikḗ”, and “克里米亚自治共和国”
- Category: disputed territory
- Location: Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Abkhazian to Zeeuws—“Crimea” goes by many names.
- Abkhazian: “Ҟрым”
- Afrikaans: “Krim”
- Afrikaans: “Outonome Republiek van Krim”
- Albanian: “Gadishulli i Krimesë”
- Albanian: “Krimea”
- Albanian: “Republika Autonome e Krimesë”
- Amharic: “ክሪሜያ”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Κιμμερία”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ταυρική”
- Arabic: “القرم (شبه جزيرة)”
- Arabic: “القرم”
- Arabic: “جمهورية اقرم الإسلامية”
- Arabic: “جمهورية القرم الإسلامية”
- Arabic: “جمهورية القرم ذاتية الحكم”
- Arabic: “شبة جزيرة القرم”
- Arabic: “شبه جزيرة القرم”
- Arabic: “شبه جزيره القرم”
- Aragonese: “Peninsula de Crimea”
- Aragonese: “Republica Autonoma de Crimea”
- Armenian: “Ղրիմ”
- Armenian: “Ղրիմի Ինքնավար Հանրապետություն”
- Asturian: “Crimea”
- Asturian: “República Autónoma de Crimea”
- Avaric: “Хъирим”
- Azerbaijani: “Krım Muxtar Respublikası”
- Azerbaijani: “Krım yarımadası”
- Azerbaijani: “Krım”
- Bashkir: “Ҡырым Автономиялы Республикаһы”
- Bashkir: “Ҡырым”
- Basque: “Krimea”
- Basque: “Krimeako Errepublika Autonomoa”
- Basque: “Krimeako penintsula”
- Bavarian: “Autonome Republik Krim”
- Bavarian: “Krim”
- Belarusian: “Аўтаномная Рэспубліка Крым”
- Belarusian: “Крым”
- Belarusian: “Крымскі паўвостраў”
- Bengali: “ক্রিমিয়া”
- Bengali: “স্বায়ত্তশাসিত প্রজাতন্ত্রী ক্রিমিয়া”
- Bhojpuri: “क्राइमिया”
- Bhojpuri: “क्रीमिया”
- Bhojpuri: “क्रीमियाई प्रायदीप”
- Bosnian: “Autonomna Republika Krim”
- Bosnian: “Krim”
- Breton: “Krimea”
- Bulgarian: “Автономна република Крим”
- Bulgarian: “Крим”
- Burmese: “ခရိုင်းမီးယား”
- Catalan: “Crimea”
- Catalan: “República Autònoma de Crimea”
- Cebuano: “Autonomous Republic of Crimea”
- Cebuano: “Crimean Peninsula”
- Central Kurdish: “کریمیا”
- Chechen: “Автономни Республика Крым”
- Chechen: “ГӀирма”
- Chechen: “Крым”
- Chinese: “Krym”
- Chinese: “克里木”
- Chinese: “克里木半岛”
- Chinese: “克里木半島”
- Chinese: “克里米亚”
- Chinese: “克里米亚半岛”
- Chinese: “克里米亞”
- Chinese: “克里米亞半岛”
- Chinese: “克里米亞半島”
- Chinese: “克里米亞自治共和國”
- Church Slavic: “Кꙑрꙑмьска Аѵтономьна Димократїꙗ”
- Chuvash: “Крым”
- Cornish: “Krimea”
- Cornish: “Krym”
- Corsican: “Republica Autònoma di Crimea”
- Crimean Tatar: “Qırım Cumhuriyeti”
- Crimean Tatar: “Qırım Muhtar Cumhuriyeti”
- Crimean Tatar: “Qırım”
- Crimean Tatar: “Къырым Мухтар Джумхуриети”
- Croatian: “Autonomna Republika Krim”
- Croatian: “Krim”
- Czech: “Autonomní republika Krym”
- Czech: “Krym”
- Czech: “Krymský poloostrov”
- Danish: “Autonome Republik Krim”
- Danish: “Krim”
- Dimli (individual language): “Cumhurîyeta Otonom a Kirimî”
- Dimli (individual language): “Qırım”
- Dutch: “Autonome Republiek van de Krim”
- Dutch: “De Krim”
- Dutch: “Krim-schiereiland”
- Dutch: “Krim”
- Eastern Mari: “Крым Автоном Республик”
- Eastern Mari: “Крым пелотро”
- Eastern Mari: “Крым”
- Egyptian Arabic: “القرم”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جمهورية كريميا”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شبه جزيرة كريميا”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كريميا”
- Erzya: “Крымень модауло”
- Esperanto: “Aŭtonoma Respubliko Krimeo”
- Esperanto: “Krimea Duoninsulo”
- Esperanto: “Krimeo”
- Estonian: “Krimm”
- Estonian: “Krimmi Autonoomne Vabariik”
- Estonian: “Krimmi poolsaar”
- Extremaduran: “Crimea”
- Faroese: “Krim hálvoyggin”
- Finnish: “Krim”
- Finnish: “Krimin autonominen tasavalta”
- Finnish: “Krimin niemimaa”
- French: “Crimée”
- French: “République autonome de Crimée”
- Gagauz: “Krım Avtonom Republikası”
- Gagauz: “Krım”
- Galician: “Crimea”
- Galician: “Península de Crimea”
- Galician: “República Autónoma de Crimea”
- Georgian: “ყირიმი”
- Georgian: “ყირიმის ავტონომიური რესპუბლიკა”
- German: “Autonome Republik Krim”
- German: “Krim”
- German: “Tauris”
- Gothic: “𐌺𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌼”
- Gothic: “𐍃𐌹𐌻𐌱𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌹𐌿𐍂𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌴𐌹 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌳𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌹𐌷𐍄𐍃 𐌺𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌼𐌹𐍃”
- Greek: “Αυτόνομη Δημοκρατία της Κριμαίας”
- Greek: “Κριμαία”
- Greek: “Κριμαϊκή Χερσόνησος”
- Gujarati: “ક્રિમિઅન પેનિન્સુલા”
- Hawaiian: “Crimea”
- Hebrew: “הרפובליקה האוטונומית של קרים”
- Hebrew: “חצי האי קרים”
- Hindi: “क्रीमिया”
- Hindi: “क्रीमियाई प्रायद्वीप”
- Hungarian: “Krím”
- Hungarian: “Krími Autonóm Köztársaság”
- Icelandic: “Krímskagi”
- Ido: “Autonoma Republiko di Krimea”
- Ido: “Krimea”
- Ido: “Peninsulo Krimea”
- Indonesian: “Krimea”
- Indonesian: “Republik Otonom Krimea”
- Indonesian: “Semenanjung Krimea”
- Interlingue: “Autonom Republica de Crimea”
- Interlingue: “Crimea”
- Irish: “an Chrimé”
- Irish: “An Chrimé”
- Irish: “Crimé”
- Irish: “Poblacht Fhéinrialaitheach na Crimé”
- Italian: “Crimea”
- Italian: “Penisola di Crimea”
- Italian: “Repubblica autonoma di Crimea”
- Japanese: “クリミア”
- Japanese: “クリミア半島”
- Japanese: “クリミア自治共和国”
- Japanese: “クリム半島”
- Javanese: “Krim”
- Javanese: “Krimea”
- Javanese: “Republik Otonom Krimea”
- Kannada: “ಕ್ರಿಮಿನಿಯನ್ ಪೆನಿನ್ಸುಲಾ”
- Kannada: “ಕ್ರಿಮಿಯ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Qırım”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Кърым Автоном Республика”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Кърым джарымайрымкан”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Кърым”
- Kashubian: “Aùtonomicznô Repùblika Krim”
- Kazakh: “Қырым Автономиялық Республикасы”
- Kazakh: “Қырым түбегі”
- Kazakh: “Қырым”
- Khmer: “គ្រីមៀ”
- Kinyarwanda: “Crimea”
- Kirghiz: “Крым Республикасы”
- Kirghiz: “Крым”
- Kirghiz: “Кырым”
- Komi: “Крым”
- Korean: “크림 자치 공화국”
- Korean: “크림반도”
- Kurdish: “Komara Xweser a Krîmê”
- Kurdish: “Krîm”
- Kurdish: “Qirim”
- Kurdish: “Qirîm”
- Ladin: “Crim”
- Ladin: “Republica Autonoma de la Crim”
- Lak: “Къирим”
- Lao: “ໄຄຣເມຍ (Crimea)”
- Lao: “ໄຄຣເມຍ”
- Latin: “Chersonesus Taurica”
- Latin: “Crimaea”
- Latin: “res publica autonoma Crimensis”
- Latvian: “Krima”
- Latvian: “Krimas Autonomā Republika”
- Ligurian: “Crimea”
- Limburgan: “Krim”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Crim”
- Lithuanian: “Krymas”
- Lithuanian: “Krymo autonominė respublika”
- Lithuanian: “Krymo pusiasalis”
- Lombard: “Crimeja”
- Lombard: “Repubblega de Crimeja”
- Low German: “Krim”
- Lower Sorbian: “Awtonomna republika Krim”
- Lower Sorbian: “Krim”
- Luxembourgish: “Krim”
- Luxembourgish: “Tauris”
- Macedonian: “Автономна Република Крим”
- Macedonian: “Крим”
- Malagasy: “Krimea”
- Malay: “Krimea”
- Malay: “Republik Autonomi Krimea”
- Malay: “کريميا”
- Malayalam: “ഓട്ടോണോമസ് റിപ്പബ്ലിക് ഓഫ് ക്രിമിയ”
- Malayalam: “ക്രിമിയ”
- Malayalam: “ക്രിമിയൻ ഉപദ്വീപ്”
- Maltese: “Krimea”
- Maltese: “Repubblika Awtonoma tal-Krimea”
- Manx: “Chrimeea”
- Manx: “Crimeea”
- Manx: “Pobblaght Hene-reiltagh ny Crimeea”
- Manx: “y Chrimeea”
- Manx: “Yn Chrimeea”
- Marathi: “क्राइमिया”
- Mazanderani: “کریمه جزیره مونا”
- Mazanderani: “کریمه شهگردون جمهوری”
- Mazanderani: “کریمه”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Krym Chū-tī Kiōng-hô-kok”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Krym”
- Mingrelian: “ყირიმი”
- Mingrelian: “ყირიმიშ ავტონომიური რესპუბლიკა”
- Moksha: “Автономонь Республикась Крым”
- Mongolian: “Бүгд Найрамдах Өөртөө Засах Крым Улс”
- Mongolian: “Крым”
- Mongolian: “Крымын хойг”
- Mongolian: “Таурика”
- Moroccan Arabic: “قريميا”
- Neapolitan: “Crimea”
- Neapolitan: “penisula ‘e Crimea”
- Neapolitan: “Repubbreca Autonoma d’a Crimea”
- Nepali: “क्रिमिया”
- Northern Frisian: “Autonoom Republiik Krim”
- Northern Frisian: “Krim”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Den autonome republikken Krim”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Krim”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Den autonome republikken Krim”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Krim”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Krimhalvøya”
- Norwegian: “Krim”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Crimèa”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Republica Autonòma de Crimèa”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Taurica”
- Ossetian: “Хъырым”
- Ossetian: “Хъырымы Автономон Республикæ”
- Panjabi: “ਕ੍ਰੀਮੀਆ”
- Persian: “جمهوری خودمختار کریمه”
- Persian: “شبهجزیره کریمه”
- Persian: “کریمه”
- Pfaelzisch: “Krim”
- Polish: “Krym”
- Polish: “Półwysep Krymski”
- Polish: “Republika Autonomiczna Krymu”
- Portuguese: “Crimeia”
- Portuguese: “península da Crimeia”
- Portuguese: “República Autónoma da Crimeia”
- Pushto: “کريميا”
- Pushto: “کریمیا”
- Romanian: “Crimeea”
- Romanian: “Krîm”
- Romanian: “Peninsula Crimeea”
- Romanian: “Qırım”
- Romanian: “Republica Autonomă Crimeea”
- Romanian: “Taurida”
- Russia Buriat: “Крим хахад арал”
- Russia Buriat: “Крым хахад арал”
- Russian: “Автономная Республика Крым”
- Russian: “Крым”
- Russian: “Крымская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика” (historical)
- Russian: “Крымская область” (historical)
- Russian: “Крымский полуостров”
- Russian: “Республика Крым”
- Russian: “Скифский Херсонес”
- Russian: “Таврида”
- Russian: “Таврика”
- Russian: “Таврический Херсонес”
- Russian: “Таврия”
- Rusyn: “Автономна Републіка Крым”
- Rusyn: “Крым”
- Santali: “ᱠᱨᱤᱢᱤᱱ ᱯᱮᱱᱤᱱᱥᱩᱞᱟ”
- Sardinian: “Crimea”
- Scots: “Autonomous Republic o Crimea”
- Scots: “Crimea”
- Serbian: “Krim”
- Serbian: “Аутономна Република Крим”
- Serbian: “Крим”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Autonomna Republika Krim”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Krim”
- Sicilian: “Crimea”
- Silesian: “Autōnōmicznŏ Republika Krymu”
- Sindhi: “ڪرائميا”
- Sinhala: “ක්රයිමීන් අර්ධද්වීපය”
- Sinhala: “ක්රිමියාව”
- Slovak: “Krym”
- Slovak: “Krymská autonómna republika”
- Slovenian: “Avtonomna republika Krim”
- Slovenian: “Krim”
- Slovenian: “Tavrida”
- South Azerbaijani: “کریمه موختار جومهوریتی”
- Spanish: “Crimea”
- Spanish: “peninsula de Crimea”
- Spanish: “península de Crimea”
- Spanish: “República autónoma de Crimea”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴽⵉⵔⵉⵎⵢⴰ”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴽⵔⵉⵎⵢⴰ”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵇⵉⵔⵉⵎⵢⴰ”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵇⵔⵉⵎⵢⴰ”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵍⵇⵉⵔⵎ”
- Sundanese: “Krimea”
- Sundanese: “Républik Otonom Krimea”
- Swahili: “Krim”
- Swedish: “Autonoma republiken Krim”
- Swedish: “Krim”
- Swiss German: “Krim”
- Sylheti: “ꠇꠦꠞꠣꠁꠝꠤꠀ”
- Tagalog: “Crimea”
- Tagalog: “Nagsasariling Republika ng Crimea”
- Tajik: “Қрим”
- Tajik: “Ҷумҳурии Худмухтори Қрим”
- Talysh: “Krım”
- Talysh: “Krym”
- Tamil: “கிரிமியன் பெனின்சுலா”
- Tamil: “கிரிமியா தன்னாட்சிக் குடியரசு”
- Tamil: “கிரிமியா மூவலந்தீவு”
- Tatar: “Qırım”
- Tatar: “Кырым Автономияле Җөмһүрияте”
- Tatar: “Кырым ярымутравы”
- Tatar: “Кырым”
- Telugu: “క్రిమియా”
- Telugu: “క్రిమీన్ పెనిన్సులా”
- Thai: “คาบสมุทรไครเมีย”
- Thai: “สาธารณรัฐปกครองตนเองไครเมีย”
- Tosk Albanian: “Krim”
- Turkish: “Kırım Özerk Cumhuriyeti”
- Turkish: “Kırım Yarımadası”
- Turkish: “Kırım”
- Turkmen: “Awtonom Respublikasy Krym”
- Turkmen: “Krym”
- Udmurt: “Крым Автономи Республика”
- Udmurt: “Крым”
- Uighur: “قىرىم يېرىم ئارىلى”
- Ukrainian: “Автономна Республіка Крим”
- Ukrainian: “Крим”
- Ukrainian: “Кримський півострів”
- Ukrainian: “Республіка Крим”
- Upper Sorbian: “Awtonomna Republika Krim”
- Upper Sorbian: “Krim”
- Urdu: “جزیرہ نما کریمیا”
- Urdu: “خود مختار جمہوریہ کریمیا”
- Urdu: “کریمیا”
- Uzbek: “Qrim Muxtor Respublikasi”
- Uzbek: “Qrim yarim oroli”
- Uzbek: “Qrim”
- Venetian: “Crimia”
- Venetian: “Republica Autonoma de Crimia”
- Veps: “Kriman Avtonomine Tazovaldkund”
- Vietnamese: “bán đảo Crimea”
- Vietnamese: “bán đảo Crimée”
- Vietnamese: “bán đảo Crưm”
- Vietnamese: “bán đảo Krym”
- Vietnamese: “Bán đảo Krym”
- Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Tự trị Krym”
- Vietnamese: “Krym”
- Vlaams: “Krim”
- Vlax Romani: “Autonomikani Republika Krimeya”
- Vlax Romani: “Krimeya”
- Võro: “Krimm”
- Võro: “Krõmmi puulsaar”
- Walloon: “Crimêye”
- Walloon: “Republike Otonome di Crimêye”
- Waray (Philippines): “Crimea”
- Waray (Philippines): “Republika Autonoma Crimea”
- Welsh: “Crimea”
- Welsh: “Gweriniaeth Hunanlywodraethol y Crimea”
- Welsh: “Krym”
- Welsh: “Penrhyn y Crimea”
- Western Armenian: “Ղրիմ”
- Western Frisian: “Autonome Krimrepublyk”
- Western Frisian: “Krim”
- Western Panjabi: “خود مختار جمہوریہ کریمیا”
- Western Panjabi: “کریمیا”
- Wu Chinese: “克里米亚”
- Wu Chinese: “克里米亚共和国”
- Yakut: “Кырыым”
- Yiddish: “אויטאנאמישע רעפובליק פון קרים”
- Yiddish: “קרים”
- Yue Chinese: “克里米亞”
- Yue Chinese: “克里米亞自治共和國”
- Zeeuws: “Krim”
- “Krõmmi puulsaar”
- “Кримея”
- “क्रीमिया”
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Crimea”. Photo: AxeL M, CC BY-SA 4.0.