Karelian Isthmus
The Karelian Isthmus is the northwestern part of Leningrad Oblast. Much of it was part of Finland until World War II.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Vyborg and Priozersk.
Vyborg
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Vyborg is a city in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, near the Finnish border. It was Finland's second-largest city until World War II, when it was handed to the Soviets as war reparations.
Priozersk
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Priozersk is on the Karelian Isthmus, close to Lake Ladoga. It is part of the Silver Ring of cultural and historical centers of Northwestern Russia.
Svetogorsk
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Svetogorsk is an industrial town on the Karelian Isthmus and the river Vuoksi, next to the Finnish border and Imatra.
Karelian Isthmus
- Type: Isthmus
- Description: isthmus in North-Western Russia
- Categories: isthmus and region
- Location: Leningrad Oblast, Northwestern Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Karelian Isthmus” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “البرزخ الكاريلي”
- Armenian: “Կարելյան պարանոց”
- Azerbaijani: “Karel bərzəği”
- Azerbaijani: “Karel bərzəxi”
- Basque: “Kareliako istmoa”
- Belarusian: “Карэльскі перашыек”
- Bulgarian: “Карелски провлак”
- Catalan: “istme de Carèlia”
- Catalan: “Istme de Carèlia”
- Cebuano: “Karel’skiy peresheyek”
- Cebuano: “Karel’skiy Peresheyek”
- Cebuano: “Karelian Isthmus”
- Cebuano: “Karelskanäset”
- Cebuano: “Karjalan Kannas”
- Cebuano: “Карельский Перешеек”
- Chinese: “卡累利阿地峡”
- Chinese: “卡累利阿地峽”
- Chinese: “卡雷亞地峽”
- Czech: “Karelská šíje”
- Danish: “Det Karelske Næs”
- Danish: “Karelske næs”
- Dutch: “Karelische Landengte”
- Esperanto: “Karelia istmo”
- Estonian: “Karjala kannas”
- Finnish: “Karelski perešejek”
- Finnish: “Karjalan kannas”
- Finnish: “Karjalan Kannas”
- Finnish: “Karjalankannas”
- French: “Isthme Carélien”
- French: “Isthme de Carelie”
- French: “isthme de Carélie”
- French: “Isthme de Carélie”
- Galician: “Istmo de Carelia”
- Georgian: “კარელიის ყელი”
- German: “Isthmus von Karelien”
- German: “Karelische Landenge”
- Hebrew: “המצר הקרלי”
- Indonesian: “Tanah Genting Karelia”
- Italian: “Istmo careliano”
- Italian: “Istmo della Carelia”
- Italian: “Istmo di Carelia”
- Japanese: “カレリア地峡”
- Kazakh: “Карель мойнағы”
- Kirghiz: “Карел мойногу”
- Korean: “카렐리아 지협”
- Korean: “카렐리야 지협”
- Latin: “Isthmus Carelicus”
- Latvian: “Karēlijas zemesšaurums”
- Lithuanian: “Karelijos sąsmauka”
- Mongolian: “Карелийн хүзүүвч”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Det karelske nes”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Det karelske neset”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karelske nes”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karelske neset”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Det karelske eidet”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Det karelske neset”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karelskij peresjejek”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karjalan kannas”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karjalankannas”
- Norwegian: “Det karelske nes”
- Persian: “باریکه کارلیا”
- Polish: “Przesmyk Karelski”
- Portuguese: “Istmo da Carélia”
- Portuguese: “Istmo de Carélia”
- Romanian: “Istmul Carelia”
- Romanian: “Istmul Karelia”
- Romanian: “Istmul Karelian”
- Russian: “Karel’skiy Peresheyek”
- Russian: “Карельский перешеек”
- Russian: “Карельский Перешеек”
- Russian: “Северо-запад Ленинградской области”
- Serbian: “Карелијска превлака”
- Slovak: “Karelská šija”
- Slovenian: “Karelijska ožina”
- Slovenian: “Karelijska zemeljska ožina”
- Spanish: “Istmo de Aunis”
- Spanish: “Istmo de Carelia”
- Spanish: “Istmo de Karelia”
- Swedish: “Karelska näset”
- Tajik: “Гарданаи Карелия”
- Tatar: “Карел муентыгы”
- Turkish: “Karelya Kıstağı”
- Ukrainian: “Карельський перешийок”
- Uzbek: “Kareliya bo‘yni”
- Uzbek: “Kareliya Bo‘yni”
- Uzbek: “Kareliya bo’yni”
- Uzbek: “Kareliya Bo’yni”
- Uzbek: “Kareliya bo`yni”
- Uzbek: “Kareliya Bo`yni”
- Uzbek: “Kareliya boʻyni”
- Uzbek: “Kareliya Boʻyni”
- Võro: “Kar’ala maakaal”
- Western Frisian: “Karelyske Lâningte”
- “Kar’ala maakaal”
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Karelian Isthmus”. Photo: IRINA LOGUNOVA, CC BY 3.0.