Kandalaksha

Kandalaksha is a city in , northern . It is one of the most active and famous tourist locations in the Murmansk region.
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  • Type: Town with 28,400 residents
  • Description: human settlement in Russia
  • Historically known as: Kandalaska
  • Address: Кандалакшский район, 184041
  • Postal code: 184041

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kandalaksha and Church of the Nativity of John the Baptist in Kandalaksha.

Railway station
is a railway station.

Community center
is a community center, which is situated 4 km northeast of Kandalaksha.

Kandalaksha

Latitude
67.1508° or 67° 9′ 3″ north
Longitude
32.4083° or 32° 24′ 30″ east
Population
28,400
Elevation
29 metres (95 feet)
Inception
1526
United Nations Location Code
RU KAN
Open location code
9GVJ5C25+88
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26878551
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
553190
Wiki­data ID
Q144264
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Kandalaksha” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: كاندالاكشا
  • Azerbaijani: Kandalakşa
  • Bashkir: Кандалакша
  • Basque: Kandalakxa
  • Belarusian: Кандалакша
  • Bulgarian: Кандалакша
  • Catalan: Kandalakxa
  • Cebuano: Kandalaksha
  • Chechen: Кандалакша
  • Chinese: Kandalaksha
  • Chinese: 坎达拉克沙
  • Crimean Tatar: Kandalakşa
  • Czech: Kandalakša
  • Danish: Kandalaksja
  • Dutch: Kandalaksja
  • Esperanto: Kandalakŝa
  • Estonian: Kandalakša
  • Finnish: Kannanlahti
  • Finnish: Kantalahti
  • French: Kandalakcha
  • Georgian: კანდალაქშა
  • German: Kandalakscha
  • Hebrew: קנדלאקשה
  • Indonesian: Kandalaksha
  • Italian: Kandalakša
  • Japanese: カンダラクシャ
  • Karelian: Kannanlakši
  • Korean: 칸달락샤
  • Latin: Kandalaxia
  • Lithuanian: Kandalakša
  • Min Nan Chinese: Kandalaksha
  • Moksha: Кандалакша
  • Northern Frisian: Kandalakscha
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Kandalaksja
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Kandalaksja
  • Norwegian: Kandalaksja
  • Ossetian: Кандалакшæ
  • Persian: کاندالاکشا
  • Polish: Kandałaksza
  • Portuguese: Kandalaksha
  • Russian: Кандалакша
  • Serbian: Кандалакша
  • Skolt Sami: Käddluhtt
  • Slovak: Kandalakša
  • South Azerbaijani: کاندالاکشا
  • Spanish: Kandalakcha
  • Swedish: Kandalaksja
  • Tagalog: Kandalaksha
  • Tajik: Кандалакша
  • Talysh: Kandalakša
  • Tatar: Кандалакша
  • Turkish: Kandalakşa
  • Ukrainian: Кандалакша
  • Upper Sorbian: Kandalakša
  • Veps: Kandalakš
  • Waray (Philippines): Kandalaksha

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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 “Kandalaksha”. Photo: GMM, CC BY-SA 3.0.