Siberia
Krasnoyarsk Krai
Taymyria

Dikson

Dikson is a small city in with a population of 690. Among its inhabitants the city is nicknamed "Arctic's Capital", taken from a popular Soviet-era song.
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  • Type: Village with 306 residents
  • Description: urban-type settlement in Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District Krasnoyarsk Krai Russia
  • Also known as: “Dickson”, “Dikson (urban-type settlement)”, and “Port Dickson”
  • Address: Таймырский Долгано-Ненецкий район

Dikson

Latitude
73.5085° or 73° 30′ 30″ north
Longitude
80.5228° or 80° 31′ 22″ east
Population
306
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
Inception
1915
IATA airport code
DKS
United Nations Location Code
RU DKS
Open location code
CM52GG5F+94
Open­Street­Map ID
node 335912763
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
1507390
Wiki­data ID
Q678299
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Dikson” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Դիքսոն (Կրասնոյարսկի երկրամաս)”
  • Azerbaijani: “Dikson qəsəbəsi”
  • Basque: “Dikson”
  • Belarusian: “Дыксан”
  • Bulgarian: “Диксон”
  • Catalan: “Dickson”
  • Catalan: “Dikson”
  • Cebuano: “Dikson”
  • Chechen: “Диксон”
  • Chinese: “迪克森 (俄羅斯)”
  • Chinese: “迪克森”
  • Chinese: “迪克森市 (俄羅斯城市)”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Dikson (şeer şeklinde qasaba)”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Dikson”
  • Croatian: “Dikson”
  • Czech: “Dikson”
  • Dutch: “Dikson”
  • Esperanto: “Dikson”
  • Finnish: “Dikson”
  • French: “Dikson”
  • German: “Dikson”
  • Greek: “Ντίκσον”
  • Hebrew: “דיקסון”
  • Hungarian: “Dickson”
  • Indonesian: “Dikson”
  • Italian: “Dikson”
  • Japanese: “ディクソン”
  • Korean: “딕손”
  • Latin: “Dickson (colonia urbana)”
  • Latin: “Dickson”
  • Latvian: “Diksona”
  • Lithuanian: “Diksonas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dikson”
  • Norwegian: “Dikson”
  • Ossetian: “Диксон (Красноярсчы край)”
  • Ossetian: “Диксон”
  • Polish: “Dikson”
  • Portuguese: “Dikson”
  • Russian: “Диксон (посёлок городского типа)”
  • Russian: “Диксон”
  • Serbian: “Диксон”
  • Slovenian: “Dikson”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دیکسون، روسیه”
  • Spanish: “Dikson”
  • Swedish: “Dikson”
  • Tatar: “Диксон”
  • Ukrainian: “Діксон”

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