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Kalmykia is a republic in and is the only Buddhist area of . 20% of the Kalmykia's land is national reserves, parks and hunting plots.
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is the capital of Kalmykia in , containing many Buddhist temples, monasteries and architecture.

is a town and the administrative center of in the Republic of Kalmykia, , located a few kilometers from the Caspian Sea. Population: 14,323 ; 14,345 ; 15,824 .

Kalmykia

Latitude
46.9017° or 46° 54′ 6″ north
Longitude
45.2492° or 45° 14′ 57″ east
Population
268,000
Elevation
-3 metres (-10 feet)
Open location code
8HR7W62X+MM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 786882074
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
553972
Wiki­data ID
Q3953
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Kalmykia” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Republik Kalmykia”
  • Afrikaans: “Kalmikië”
  • Afrikaans: “Kalmoekië”
  • Albanian: “Kalmikia”
  • Amharic: “ካልምኪያ”
  • Arabic: “قلميقيا”
  • Aragonese: “Calmuquia”
  • Armenian: “Կալմիկիա հանրապետություն”
  • Armenian: “Կալմիկիա”
  • Asturian: “Kalmukia”
  • Avaric: “Гъалмугъ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kalmıkiya”
  • Bashkir: “Ҡалмыҡ Республикаһы”
  • Basque: “Kalmukia”
  • Belarusian: “Калмыкія”
  • Bengali: “কালমিকিয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Kalmikija”
  • Breton: “Kalmoukia”
  • Breton: “Kalmykia”
  • Bulgarian: “Калмикия”
  • Catalan: “Calmúquia”
  • Cebuano: “Kalmykiya”
  • Central Kurdish: “کالمیکیا”
  • Chechen: “ГӀалмакхойчоь”
  • Chinese: “Kalmykia”
  • Chinese: “卡尔梅克共和国”
  • Chinese: “卡爾梅克”
  • Chinese: “卡爾梅克共和國”
  • Chuvash: “Калмăк Республики”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Qalmuq Ulusı”
  • Croatian: “Kalmička”
  • Croatian: “Kalmikija”
  • Czech: “Kalmycko”
  • Danish: “Kalmykien”
  • Danish: “Republikken Kalmykija”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kalmıkiya”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kalmıkya”
  • Dutch: “Kalmoekië”
  • Dutch: “Kalmukkië”
  • Eastern Mari: “Калмыкий”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “قلميقيا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كالميكيا”
  • Erzya: “Калмыкия Республикась”
  • Esperanto: “Kalmukio”
  • Esperanto: “Kalmukujo”
  • Estonian: “Kalmõkkia”
  • Finnish: “Kalmukia”
  • French: “Kalmoukie”
  • French: “République de Kalmoukie”
  • Gagauz: “Kalmıkiya”
  • Galician: “Kalmykia”
  • Galician: “República dos Calmucos”
  • Georgian: “ყალმუხეთი”
  • Georgian: “ყალმუხეთის რესპუბლიკა”
  • German: “Kalmückien”
  • Greek: “Δημοκρατία της Καλμίκια”
  • Greek: “Καλμίκια”
  • Gujarati: “કાલ્મીકિયા રિપબ્લિક”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kalmykia Khiung-fò-koet”
  • Hausa: “Kalmykia”
  • Hebrew: “קלמיקיה”
  • Hindi: “कालमिक”
  • Hindi: “कालमिकिया”
  • Hindi: “कालमीकिया गणतंत्र”
  • Hindi: “रेसपूब्लिका कालमिकिया”
  • Hungarian: “Kalmükföld”
  • Ido: “Republiko Kalmikia”
  • Indonesian: “Kalmykia”
  • Inupiaq: “Kalmiiaq”
  • Inupiaq: “Kalmikia”
  • Irish: “An Chailmíc”
  • Italian: “Calmucchia”
  • Italian: “Repubblica dei Calmucchi”
  • Japanese: “カルムイク共和国”
  • Kabardian: “Къалмыкъ республикэ”
  • Kalmyk: “Хальмг Таңһч”
  • Kannada: “ಕಲ್ಮೀಕಿಯಾ ಗಣರಾಜ್ಯ”
  • Kazakh: “Қалмақстан”
  • Kirghiz: “Калмакстан”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Калмыкму”
  • Komi: “Калмыкия”
  • Korean: “칼미크 공화국”
  • Korean: “칼미키야 공화국”
  • Korean: “칼미키야”
  • Ladin: “Calmichia”
  • Latin: “Calmuccia”
  • Latvian: “Kalmikija”
  • Lezghian: “Калмыкия”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Republica de Calmicia”
  • Literary Chinese: “卡爾梅克共和國”
  • Lithuanian: “Kalmukija”
  • Lombard: “Calmuchia”
  • Macedonian: “Калмикија”
  • Malay: “Kalmykia”
  • Maltese: “Qalmykia”
  • Marathi: “काल्मिकिया प्रजासत्ताक”
  • Marathi: “काल्मिकिया”
  • Mazanderani: “قالموقستون”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Kalmykia”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kalmykia”
  • Mingrelian: “ყალმუხეთი”
  • Mongolian: “Бүгд Найрамдах Халимаг Улс”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kalmükien”
  • Northern Sami: “Kalmukia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kalmykia”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kalmykia”
  • Norwegian: “Kalmykia”
  • Ossetian: “Хъалмыхъхъ”
  • Persian: “قالموقستان”
  • Persian: “قالمیقستان”
  • Polish: “Kałmucja”
  • Polish: “Republika Kałmucji”
  • Portuguese: “Calmúquia”
  • Pushto: “کلمیکیا جمهوریت”
  • Romanian: “Calmîchia”
  • Romanian: “Kalmîkia”
  • Romanian: “Republica Kalmîkia”
  • Romanian: “Калмыкия”
  • Russia Buriat: “Хальмаг Тангача”
  • Russia Buriat: “Хальмаг Улас”
  • Russian: “Калмыкия”
  • Russian: “Республика Калмыкия”
  • Russian: “Хальмг Тангч”
  • Rusyn: “Калмикія”
  • Scots: “Kalmykie”
  • Serbian: “Калмикија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kalmikija”
  • Silesian: “Kałmycyjŏ”
  • Silesian: “Republika Kałmycyje”
  • Sinhala: “කල්මීකියා”
  • Slovak: “Kalmycko”
  • Slovenian: “Kalmikija”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قالموقستان”
  • Spanish: “Kalmukia”
  • Spanish: “República de Kalmukia”
  • Sundanese: “Kalmykia”
  • Swahili: “Kalmykia”
  • Swedish: “Kalmuckien”
  • Tagalog: “Kalmukiya”
  • Tagalog: “Kalmykia”
  • Tajik: “Қалмиқистон”
  • Talysh: “Kalmıkiya”
  • Talysh: “Kalmykija”
  • Tamil: “கால்மீக்கியா”
  • Tamil: “குடியரசு ஆப் காலம்யக்யா”
  • Tatar: “Калмыкия”
  • Telugu: “రిపబ్లిక్ ఆప్ కాల్మైకియా”
  • Thai: “คัลมืยคียา”
  • Thai: “คัลมืยเคีย”
  • Thai: “สาธารณรัฐคัลมืยคียา”
  • Thai: “สาธารณรัฐคัลมืยเคีย”
  • Turkish: “Kalmukya”
  • Udmurt: “Калмыкия”
  • Uighur: “قالماقىستان”
  • Ukrainian: “Калмикія”
  • Ukrainian: “Калмиччина”
  • Ukrainian: “Кімличчина”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kalmykska”
  • Urdu: “کلمیکیا”
  • Uzbek: “Qalmogʻiston”
  • Veps: “Kalmikijan Tazovaldkund”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Kalmykia”
  • Vietnamese: “Kalmykia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kalmykia”
  • Welsh: “Gweriniaeth Kalmykia”
  • Welsh: “Kalmyk”
  • Western Frisian: “Kalmukje”
  • Western Panjabi: “کلمیکیا”
  • Wu Chinese: “卡尔梅克共和国”
  • Yakut: “Калмыкия”
  • Yue Chinese: “卡爾梅克”
  • “Калмыкия”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Kalmykia”. Photo: Ymblanter, CC BY-SA 3.0.