Dagestan
Dagestan is the most culturally diverse republic in the Caucasus, and at the Caspian Gates between Persia and Europe has been of historic significance since antiquity.
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Tindi
Tindi is a rural locality in Tsumadinsky District, Republic of Dagestan, Russia.Dagestan
- Type: State with 3,180,000 residents
- Description: republic of Russia
- Also known as: “Cộng hoà Dagestan”, “Dagestan A.S.S.R.”, “Dagestan Republic”, “Dagestānas Republika”, “Dagestani Vabariik”, “Dagestánská republika”, “Dagestanskaya ASSR”, “Dagestanskaya Avtonomnaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika”, “Daghestàn”, “Dağıstan Respublikası”, “Republika Dagestán”, “Respublika Dagestan”, “Дагстан Республикасы”, “דגסתאן”, “दाग़िस्तान गणतंत्र”, “குடியரசு ஆப் டாஜ்ஸ்தான்”, “ดาเกสถาน”, “ダゲスタン (ロシア)#歴史”, and “达吉斯坦”
- Neighbors: Chechnya, Kalmykia, and Stavropol Krai
- Categories: republic of Russia, federal subject of Russia, and locality
- Location: North Caucasus, Southern Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude of center
43° north
Longitude of center
47° east
Population
3,180,000
Elevation
708 metres (2,323 feet)
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Abkhazian to Yue Chinese—“Dagestan” goes by many names.
- Abkhazian: “Даҕьесҭан Аҳәынҭқарра”
- Abkhazian: “Даӷьсҭан”
- Achinese: “Republik Dagestan”
- Afrikaans: “Dagestan”
- Albanian: “Dagestani”
- Amharic: “ዳገስታን”
- Arabic: “داغستان”
- Armenian: “Դաղստան”
- Armenian: “Դաղստանի Հանրապետություն”
- Asturian: “Daguestán”
- Asturian: “República de Daguestán”
- Avaric: “Дагъистан”
- Azerbaijani: “Dağıstan”
- Bashkir: “Дағстан”
- Basque: “Dagestan”
- Belarusian: “Дагестан”
- Bengali: “দাগেস্তান”
- Bosnian: “Dagestan”
- Breton: “Dagestan”
- Bulgarian: “Дагестан”
- Catalan: “Daguestan”
- Cebuano: “Dagestan”
- Central Kurdish: “داغستان”
- Chechen: “ДегӀаста”
- Chinese: “达吉斯坦共和国”
- Chinese: “達吉斯坦共和國”
- Church Slavic: “Дагєстанъ”
- Chuvash: “Дагестан Республики”
- Crimean Tatar: “Dağıstan”
- Croatian: “Dagestan”
- Czech: “Dagestán”
- Danish: “Dagestan”
- Danish: “Republikken Dagestan”
- Dargwa: “Дагъистан Республика”
- Dimli (individual language): “Dağıstan”
- Dutch: “Dagestan”
- Eastern Mari: “Дагестан”
- Egyptian Arabic: “داجستان”
- Emilian: “Daghestan”
- Erzya: “Дагестан Республикась”
- Esperanto: “Dagestano”
- Estonian: “Dagestan”
- Finnish: “Dagestan”
- French: “Daghestan”
- French: “Daguestan”
- French: “République de Daghestan”
- Gagauz: “Dagestan”
- Gagauz: “Dagıstan”
- Galician: “Daguestán”
- Georgian: “დაღესტანი”
- Georgian: “დაღესტნის რესპუბლიკა”
- German: “Dagestan”
- Gothic: “𐌳𐌰𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽”
- Gothic: “𐌳𐌰𐌲𐌴𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽”
- Greek: “Δημοκρατία του Νταγκεστάν”
- Greek: “Νταγκεστάν”
- Gujarati: “રિપબ્લિક ઓફ ડૅગેસ્ટન”
- Hakka Chinese: “Dagestan Khiung-fò-koet”
- Hausa: “Dagestan”
- Hebrew: “דאגסטן”
- Hebrew: “דגסטן”
- Hindi: “दाग़िस्तान”
- Hungarian: “Dagesztán”
- Icelandic: “Dagestan”
- Ido: “Republiko Dagestan”
- Indonesian: “Dagestan”
- Ingush: “ДаьгIасте”
- Ingush: “ДаьгӀасте”
- Interlingue: “Dagestan”
- Inupiaq: “Dagestan”
- Inupiaq: “Tagistan”
- Irish: “an Dagastáin”
- Irish: “An Dagastáin”
- Italian: “Daghestan”
- Japanese: “ダゲスタン共和国”
- Javanese: “Dagestan”
- Kabardian: “Дагъыстэн”
- Kabardian: “Республикэ Дагъыстэн”
- Kalmyk: “Дагъсин таңһч”
- Kannada: “ಡಾಗೆಸ್ತಾನ್ನ ಗಣರಾಜ್ಯ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Dagestan”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Daǵıstan”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Дагъыстан”
- Kashubian: “Dagestan”
- Kazakh: “Дағыстан”
- Kirghiz: “Дагстан”
- Komi: “Дагестан”
- Korean: “다게스탄 공화국”
- Kumyk: “Дагъыстан Джумгьурият”
- Kurdish: “Daxistan”
- Lak: “Дагъусттан”
- Lao: “ດາເກສະຖານ”
- Latin: “Daghestania”
- Latvian: “Dagestāna”
- Lezghian: “Дагъустан”
- Ligurian: “Daghestan”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Republica de Dagestan”
- Lithuanian: “Dagestanas”
- Lombard: “Daghestan”
- Low German: “Dagestan”
- Luxembourgish: “Dagestan”
- Macedonian: “Дагестан”
- Malagasy: “Dagestàna”
- Malay: “Dagestan”
- Malayalam: “ദാഗസ്താൻ”
- Marathi: “दागिस्तान प्रजासत्ताक”
- Marathi: “दागिस्तान”
- Mazanderani: “داغستون”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Dagestan”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Dagestan”
- Mingrelian: “დაღესტანი”
- Mongolian: “Дагестан”
- Northern Frisian: “Dagestaan”
- Northern Sami: “Dagestan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dagestan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dagestan”
- Norwegian: “Dagestan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Daguestan”
- Oromo: “Dagestan”
- Ossetian: “Дагъистан”
- Pampanga: “Dagestan”
- Panjabi: “ਦਾਗਿਸਤਾਨ”
- Papiamento: “Dagestan”
- Persian: “داغستان”
- Polish: “Dagestan”
- Polish: “Republika Dagestanu”
- Portuguese: “Daguestão”
- Pushto: “داغستان جمهوريت”
- Quechua: “Lakhisuyu”
- Romanian: “Daghestan”
- Russia Buriat: “Дагестаан Республика”
- Russia Buriat: “Дагестан”
- Russian: “Дагестан”
- Russian: “Республика Дагестан”
- Rusyn: “Дагестан”
- Rusyn: “Републіка Даґестан”
- Scots: “Dagestan”
- Serbian: “Дагестан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dagestan”
- Sicilian: “Daghestan”
- Silesian: “Dagestōn”
- Silesian: “Republika Dagestanu”
- Sindhi: “داغستان”
- Sinhala: “ඩගේස්ටාන් ජනරජය”
- Slovak: “Dagestan”
- Slovenian: “Dagestan”
- Somali: “Dagestan”
- South Azerbaijani: “داغیستان”
- Spanish: “Daguestán”
- Sundanese: “Dagéstan”
- Swahili: “Dagestan”
- Swedish: “Dagestan”
- Tabassaran: “Дагъустан Республика”
- Tagalog: “Dagestan”
- Tajik: “Доғистон”
- Talysh: “Dağıston”
- Talysh: “Daǧystan”
- Tamil: “தாகெஸ்தான்”
- Tatar: “Дагстан”
- Telugu: “రిపబ్లిక్ ఆఫ్ డాగెస్తాన్”
- Thai: “สาธารณรัฐดาเกสตาน”
- Thai: “สาธารณรัฐดาเกสถาน”
- Turkish: “Dağıstan”
- Turkmen: “Dagystan”
- Udmurt: “Дагестан”
- Uighur: “داغىستان”
- Ukrainian: “Дагестан”
- Upper Sorbian: “Dagestan”
- Urdu: “داغستان”
- Uzbek: “Dogʻiston”
- Veps: “Dagestanan Tazovaldkund”
- Vietnamese: “Dagestan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Dagestan”
- Welsh: “Dagestan”
- Western Panjabi: “داغستان”
- Wu Chinese: “达吉斯坦共和国”
- Yakut: “Дагестаан”
- Yue Chinese: “達吉斯坦”
- “ma Takesan”
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