Dikson
Dikson is a small city in Taymyria with a population of 690. Among its inhabitants the city is nicknamed "Arctic's Capital", taken from a popular Soviet-era song.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Village with 306 residents
- Description: urban-type settlement in Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District Krasnoyarsk Krai Russia
- Also known as: “Dikson (urban-type settlement)”, “Port Dickson”, “Диксон (Красноярсчы край)”, “Диксон (посёлок городского типа)”, and “迪克森 (俄羅斯)”
- Address: Таймырский Долгано-Ненецкий район
Dikson
- Categories: work settlement of Russia, closed city, port settlement, urban-type settlement, and locality
- Location: Taymyria, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude
73.5085° or 73° 30′ 30″ north
Longitude
80.5228° or 80° 31′ 22″ east
Population
306
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
Established
1915
IATA airport code
DKS
UN/LOCODE
RU DKS
Open location code
CM52GG5F+94
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Urdu—“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”
- 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”
- Persian: “دیکسون (روسیه)”
- Persian: “دیکسون”
- Polish: “Dikson”
- Portuguese: “Dikson”
- Russian: “Диксон”
- Serbian: “Диксон”
- Slovenian: “Dikson”
- South Azerbaijani: “دیکسون، روسیه”
- Spanish: “Dikson”
- Swedish: “Dikson”
- Tatar: “Диксон”
- Ukrainian: “Діксон”
- Urdu: “ڈکسن (شہری قسم کی بستی)”
- Urdu: “ڈکسن”
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