Diomede Islands
The Diomede Islands are a pair of rocky islands where Russia borders the United States across the Bering Strait. They represent the border between Asia and North America.
Wikimedia, Public domain.- Island with about 120 residents
- Description: island group in the Bering Strait
- Also known as“Gvozdev Islands”“Ostrova Gvozdjeva”“острова Диомида”
- Category: island group
- Location
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Latitude of center
65.7658° or 65° 45′ 57″ north
Longitude of center
-168.9876° or 168° 59′ 15″ west
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Diomede Islands” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Diomede-eilande”
- Afrikaans: “Diomedes-eilande”
- Albanian: “Ishujt Diomede”
- Arabic: “جزر ديوميد”
- Arabic: “جزيرة اغنالوك”
- Arabic: “جزيرة اناليك”
- Arabic: “جزيرة ايماكليك”
- Arabic: “جزيرة راتمانوف”
- Arabic: “جزيرة كروسنسترن”
- Arabic: “جزيرة نوناربوك”
- Arabic: “جزيرتي دايوميد”
- Arabic: “ديوميد”
- Armenian: “Դիոմիդի կղզիներ”
- Asturian: “Isllas Diomedes”
- Asturian: “Islles Diomedes”
- Azerbaijani: “Diomid adaları”
- Basque: “Diomedes uharteak”
- Belarusian: “Астравы Дзіяміда”
- Bengali: “ডায়োমিড দ্বীপপুঞ্জ”
- Bulgarian: “Диомид”
- Bulgarian: “Диомидови острови”
- Catalan: “Illes Diomedes”
- Cebuano: “Diomede Islands (kapuloan)”
- Cebuano: “Diomede Islands”
- Cebuano: “Diomida”
- Cebuano: “Ostrova Diomida”
- Cebuano: “Острова Диомида”
- Central Kurdish: “دوورگەکانی دایمید”
- Chinese: “代奧米德群島”
- Chinese: “迪奥米德群岛”
- Chinese: “迪奧米德群島”
- Croatian: “Diomedovi otoci”
- Czech: “Diomédovo souostroví”
- Czech: “Diomédovy ostrovy”
- Czech: “Gvozděvovy ostrovy”
- Czech: “Imaqliq”
- Czech: “Inaliq”
- Czech: “Malý Diomédes”
- Czech: “Velký Diomédes”
- Danish: “Diomedeøerne”
- Danish: “Diomedeøerne”
- Danish: “Diomedeørnene”
- Dutch: “Diomedeseilanden”
- Esperanto: “Diomedo-insuloj”
- Estonian: “Diomidi saared”
- Finnish: “Diomeden saaret”
- Finnish: “Diomedesaaret”
- French: “Grande Diomède”
- French: “Îles Diomède”
- French: “Petite Diomède”
- Georgian: “დიომიდის კუნძულები”
- German: “Diomedes-Inseln”
- German: “Gwosdew-Inseln”
- German: “острова Диомида”
- Greek: “Διομήδειοι Νήσοι”
- Greek: “Νησιά Διομήδη”
- Greek: “Νήσοι Διομήδους”
- Hausa: “Tsibirin Diomede”
- Hebrew: “איי דיומד”
- Hebrew: “איי דיומיד”
- Hindi: “डायोमीड द्वीप”
- Hungarian: “Diomede-szigetek”
- Indonesian: “Kepulauan Diomede”
- Italian: “Diomede Islands”
- Italian: “Isole Diomede”
- Italian: “Острова Диомида”
- Japanese: “ダイオミード諸島”
- Japanese: “ディオミード諸島”
- Korean: “그보즈데브 제도”
- Korean: “다이오메드 제도”
- Korean: “다이오미드 제도”
- Korean: “디오메드 제도”
- Latin: “Insulae Diomedis”
- Latvian: “Diomida salas”
- Lithuanian: “Diomedų salos”
- Lithuanian: “Diomido salos”
- Lithuanian: “Gvozdevo salos”
- Macedonian: “Диомидови Острови”
- Malayalam: “ഡയമിഡ് ദ്വീപുകൾ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Diomedene”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Diomedesøyene”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Diomede Islands”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Diomedesøyane”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ostrova Diomeda”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Острова Диомида”
- Norwegian: “Diomedesøyene”
- Norwegian: “Diomida”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Illas Diomède”
- Persian: “جزایر دایمید”
- Polish: “Diomede Islands”
- Polish: “Wyspy Diomedesa”
- Polish: “острова Диомида”
- Portuguese: “Diomedas”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Diomedas”
- Portuguese: “Ilhas Diomedes”
- Romanian: “Insulele Diomede”
- Russian: “Диомида острова”
- Russian: “Диомида”
- Russian: “Диомидовы острова”
- Russian: “Острова Гвоздева”
- Russian: “Острова Диомида”
- Serbian: “Diomede Islands”
- Serbian: “Diomedova ostrva”
- Serbian: “Диомедова острва”
- Slovak: “Diomedove ostrovy”
- Slovenian: “Diomedova otoka”
- Spanish: “Islas Diómedes”
- Swedish: “Diomede Islands”
- Swedish: “Diomedeöarna”
- Tamil: “டையோமெதி தீவுகள்”
- Thai: “หมู่เกาะไดออมีด”
- Turkish: “Diomede Adaları”
- Ukrainian: “Гвоздєва острови”
- Ukrainian: “Діоміда острови”
- Ukrainian: “Діоміда”
- Ukrainian: “Острови Гвоздєва”
- Ukrainian: “Острови Діоміда”
- Vietnamese: “Quần đảo Diomede”
- Western Frisian: “Diomedeseilannen”
- Western Panjabi: “ڈائیومیڈ جزیرے”
- Yue Chinese: “戴奧米德群島”
- “ma Tajome”
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