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Kamchatka

Kamchatka is a 1,250-km-long 270,000 km2 peninsula in the , protruding into the northern Pacific Ocean. Kamchatka Krai is a county which also includes parts of the Russian mainland, and some small islands.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Yelizovo.

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is the capital and largest city on Kamchatka Peninsula. It is a port city on the Avacha Bay and surrounded by high, snow-capped mountains and volcanoes.

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is a small city of 40,000 on the Avacha RIver near , Kamchatka, most notable for hosting the only commercial airport on Kamchatka.

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is a village in Kamchatka's central region, 520 km north of the capital. It was established in 1932 at the junction of the rivers Bystraya and Uksichan.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Nalychevo Nature Park.

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is in the Kamchatka peninsula in the .
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Kamchatka

Latitude of center
57.1915° or 57° 11′ 29″ north
Longitude of center
160.0384° or 160° 2′ 18″ east
Population
320,000
Elevation
220 metres (722 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
node 508057529
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2125072
Wiki­data ID
Q7948
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Kamchatka” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Krai Kamchatka”
  • Afrikaans: “Kamtsjatka-krai”
  • Albanian: “Kamçatka Krai”
  • Arabic: “كراي كامشاتكا”
  • Armenian: “Կամչատկայի երկրամաս”
  • Asturian: “Krai de Kamchatka”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kamçatka diyarı”
  • Bashkir: “Камчатка крайы”
  • Basque: “Kamtxatka kraia”
  • Belarusian: “Камчатка”
  • Belarusian: “Камчацкі край”
  • Bengali: “কামচাটকাক্রাই”
  • Bosnian: “Kamčatski kraj”
  • Breton: “Kamtchatka”
  • Bulgarian: “Камчатски край”
  • Catalan: “krai de Kamtxatka”
  • Catalan: “Krai de Kamtxatka”
  • Catalan: “territori de Kamtxatka”
  • Catalan: “Territori de Kamtxatka”
  • Cebuano: “Kamtchatski Kray”
  • Chechen: “Камчаткин мохк”
  • Chinese: “Kamchatka Pian-kiong-khu”
  • Chinese: “堪察加”
  • Chinese: “堪察加邊疆區”
  • Chinese: “琴察加邊疆區”
  • Chuvash: “Камчатка Ен”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Kamçatka ülkesi”
  • Croatian: “Kamčatski kraj”
  • Czech: “Kamčatský kraj”
  • Danish: “Kamtjatka kraj”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kamçatka”
  • Dutch: “Kamtsjatka”
  • Dutch: “Kraj Kamtsjatka”
  • Eastern Mari: “Камчатке мланде”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كامشاتكا”
  • Erzya: “Камчатонь край”
  • Esperanto: “Kamĉatka regiono”
  • Estonian: “Kamtšatka krai”
  • Finnish: “Kamtšatkan aluepiiri”
  • French: “Kamtchatka”
  • French: “kraï de Kamtchatka”
  • French: “Kraï de Kamtchatka”
  • French: “kraï du Kamtchatka”
  • French: “Kraï du Kamtchatka”
  • French: “région de Kamtchatka”
  • French: “région du Kamtchatka”
  • French: “territoire de Kamtchatka”
  • French: “territoire du Kamtchatka”
  • Galician: “Krai de Kamchatka”
  • Georgian: “კამჩატკა”
  • Georgian: “კამჩატკის მხარე”
  • German: “Kamtschatka”
  • German: “Region Kamtschatka”
  • Greek: “Καμτσάτκα”
  • Greek: “Κράι Καμτσάτκα”
  • Gujarati: “કામચાટ્કા ક્રાઇ”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז קמצ’טקה”
  • Hebrew: “קמצ’טקה”
  • Hindi: “कमचटका क्राय”
  • Hindi: “कमचातका क्राय”
  • Hungarian: “Kamcsatkai határterület”
  • Icelandic: “Kamtsjatka skagi”
  • Icelandic: “Kamtsjatkafylki”
  • Ido: “Regiono Kamchatka”
  • Indonesian: “Krai Kamchatka”
  • Inupiaq: “Kamchatka Krai”
  • Inupiaq: “Kamsiatka Nuna”
  • Irish: “Críoch Kamchatka”
  • Italian: “territorio della Kamčatka”
  • Italian: “Territorio della Kamčatka”
  • Japanese: “カムチャツカ地方”
  • Kalmyk: “Камчатин зах улс”
  • Kannada: “ಕಂಚಟ್ಕಾ ಕ್ರಾಯಿ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Kamchatka U’lkesi”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Kamchatka úlkesi”
  • Kazakh: “Камчатка аймағы”
  • Kirghiz: “Камчатка крайы”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Камчатка ладор”
  • Komi: “Камчатка край”
  • Korean: “캄차카 변경주”
  • Korean: “캄차카”
  • Ladin: “Krai de Camciatca”
  • Latin: “territorium Camtschaticum”
  • Latin: “Territorium Camtschaticum”
  • Latvian: “Kamčatkas novads”
  • Ligurian: “Krai da Kamchatka”
  • Lithuanian: “Kamčiatkos kraštas”
  • Lombard: “Kraj de Kamčatka”
  • Macedonian: “Камчатски крај”
  • Macedonian: “Камчатски Крај”
  • Malay: “Jajahan Kamchatka”
  • Marathi: “कामचत्का क्राय”
  • Mazanderani: “کامچاتکا کرای”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Kamchatka Biĕng-giŏng-kṳ̆”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kamchatka Pian-kiong-khu”
  • Mingrelian: “კამჩატკაშ აკანი”
  • Moksha: “Камчатонь край”
  • Mongolian: “Камчаткын хязгаар”
  • Mongolian: “Камчаткын Хязгаар”
  • Nepali: “कामचटका क्राई”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kamtschatka (Regiuun)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kamtschatka”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kamtsjatka kraj”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kamtsjatka”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kamtsjatka kraj”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kamtsjatka”
  • Norwegian: “Kamtsjatka kraj”
  • Norwegian: “Kamtsjatskaja oblast” (historical)
  • Ossetian: “Камчаткæйы край”
  • Persian: “سرزمین کامچاتکا”
  • Polish: “Kraj Kamczacki”
  • Portuguese: “Kamchatka”
  • Portuguese: “Krai de Camecháteca”
  • Portuguese: “Krai de Kamtchatka”
  • Pushto: “کامچاټکا سيمه”
  • Romanian: “Ținutul Kamceatka”
  • Russia Buriat: “Камчаткын хизаар”
  • Russian: “Камчатка”
  • Russian: “Камчатская область” (historical)
  • Russian: “Камчатский край”
  • Scots: “Kamchatka Krai”
  • Serbian: “Камчатска Покрајина”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kamčatski kraj”
  • Sinhala: “කම්චත්කා ක්‍රායි”
  • Slovak: “Kamčatský kraj”
  • Slovenian: “Kamčatski okraj”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کامچاتکا دیاری”
  • Spanish: “Kamchatka”
  • Spanish: “Krai de Kamchatka”
  • Swahili: “Kamchatka Krai”
  • Swedish: “Kamtjatka kraj”
  • Swedish: “Kamtjatka”
  • Tagalog: “Kamchatka Krai”
  • Tajik: “Кишвари Камчатка”
  • Talysh: “Kamcatka kraj”
  • Tamil: “கம்சாத்கா பிரதேசம்”
  • Tamil: “கம்ச்சத்க க்ரெய்”
  • Tamil: “காமசாட்கா க்ரை”
  • Tatar: “Камчатка крае”
  • Telugu: “కమ్చత్కా క్రాయ్”
  • Thai: “ดินแดนคัมชัตคา”
  • Turkish: “Kamçatka Krayı”
  • Turkmen: “Kamçatka Kraý”
  • Udmurt: “Камчатка шаер”
  • Ukrainian: “Камчатський край”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Region Kamčatka”
  • Urdu: “کامچاٹکا کرائی”
  • Uzbek: “Kamchatka oʻlkasi”
  • Venetian: “Teritorio de ła Kamčatka”
  • Veps: “Kamčatkan rand”
  • Vietnamese: “Kamchatka (vùng)”
  • Vietnamese: “Kamchatka Krai”
  • Vietnamese: “Kamchatka”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kamchatka Krai”
  • Welsh: “Crai Kamchatka”
  • Western Panjabi: “کمچٹکا”
  • Wu Chinese: “堪察加边疆区”
  • Yakut: “Камчаатка кыраайа”
  • Yakut: “Камчатка кыраайа”
  • Yue Chinese: “琴察加邊疆區”

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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 “Kamchatka”. Photo: Aysa t, CC BY-SA 4.0.