Kherson

Kherson is a major sea harbour town in . It sits in the river delta of the Dniepr river, where it mounts into the Black Sea.
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  • Type: City with 295,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine
  • Also known as: “H‘erson”, “Ĥerson”, “Jerson”, “Oblast de Jerson”, “Oblast de Kherson”, “Александр-Шанц”, “Г. Херсон”, “Херзон”, “חערסאן”, “ケルソン”, and “ヘルソーン”

Places of Interest

Highlights: St. Catherine’s Cathedral, Kherson and Park Khersonska Fortetsia.

Church
Photo: Nataliya Shestakova, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Cathedral of St. Catherine is a religious building…

Park
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Kherson fortress is a former earthen fortress in the city of Kherson in southern Ukraine.

Theater building
Photo: Alexey M., CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a theater building.

Kherson

Latitude
46.6401° or 46° 38′ 25″ north
Longitude
32.6144° or 32° 36′ 52″ east
Population
295,000
Elevation
41 metres (135 feet)
Established
18th century
IATA airport code
KHE
UN/LOCODE
UA KHE
Open location code
8GRJJJR7+3Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 255466573
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
706448
Wiki­data ID
Q156732
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Kherson” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Cherson”
  • Arabic: “خيرسون”
  • Aragonese: “Kherson”
  • Armenian: “Խերսոն”
  • Asturian: “Kherson”
  • Azerbaijani: “Herson”
  • Azerbaijani: “Xerson”
  • Bashkir: “Херсон”
  • Basque: “Kherson”
  • Belarusian: “Херсон”
  • Belarusian: “Хэрсон”
  • Bengali: “খেরসন”
  • Bosnian: “Herson”
  • Breton: “C’herson”
  • Breton: “Kherson”
  • Bulgarian: “Херсон”
  • Catalan: “Kherson”
  • Cebuano: “Kherson”
  • Chechen: “Херсон”
  • Chinese: “赫尔松”
  • Chinese: “赫爾松”
  • Chuvash: “Херсон”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Herson”
  • Croatian: “Herson”
  • Czech: “Cherson”
  • Danish: “Kherson”
  • Dutch: “Cherson”
  • Eastern Mari: “Херсон”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “خيرسون”
  • Erzya: “Херсон”
  • Esperanto: “Ĥersono”
  • Estonian: “Herson”
  • Finnish: “H’erson”
  • Finnish: “Herson”
  • French: “Kherson”
  • Georgian: “ხერსონი”
  • German: “Cherson”
  • Greek: “Χερσώνα”
  • Gujarati: “ખેર્સન”
  • Hebrew: “חרסון”
  • Hindi: “खेरसॉन”
  • Hindi: “खेर्सन”
  • Hungarian: “Herszon”
  • Icelandic: “Kherson”
  • Indonesian: “Kherson”
  • Interlingue: “Cherson”
  • Irish: “Kherson”
  • Italian: “Cherson”
  • Italian: “Chersone” (historical)
  • Italian: “Chersonia” (historical)
  • Japanese: “ヘルソン”
  • Kannada: “ಖೆರ್ಸನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಖೇರ್ಸೋನ್”
  • Kashmiri: “خیرسۆن”
  • Kazakh: “Херсон”
  • Khmer: “ខឺសុន”
  • Kirghiz: “Херсон”
  • Korean: “헤르손”
  • Kotava: “Xerson”
  • Kurdish: “Xerson”
  • Kurdish: “Xêrson”
  • Ladin: “Herson”
  • Ladin: “Kherson”
  • Lao: “ເຄີຊັນ”
  • Latin: “Cherso”
  • Latin: “Chersonium”
  • Latvian: “Hersona”
  • Limburgan: “Cherson”
  • Lithuanian: “Chersonas”
  • Lombard: “Cherson”
  • Macedonian: “Херсон”
  • Malagasy: “Cherson”
  • Malay: “Kherson”
  • Malayalam: “ഖെർസൺ”
  • Maltese: “Kerson”
  • Manx: “Kherson”
  • Marathi: “खेर्सन”
  • Mingrelian: “ხერსონი”
  • Moksha: “Хэрсон”
  • Mongolian: “Херсон”
  • Northern Frisian: “Cherson (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Cherson”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kherson”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kherson”
  • Norwegian: “Kherson”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kherson”
  • Ossetian: “Херсон”
  • Persian: “خرسون”
  • Piemontese: “Cherson”
  • Polish: “Chersoń”
  • Pontic: “Χερσώνα”
  • Portuguese: “Kherson”
  • Romanian: “Herson”
  • Russian: “Херсон”
  • Russian: “Херсонскую”
  • Rusyn: “Херсон”
  • Scots: “Kherson”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Kherson”
  • Serbian: “Herson”
  • Serbian: “Херсон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Herson”
  • Silesian: “Chersůn”
  • Silesian: “Chersůń”
  • Sindhi: “خيرسون”
  • Sinhala: “ඛේර්සන්”
  • Slovak: “Cherson”
  • Slovenian: “Herson”
  • South Azerbaijani: “خرسون”
  • Spanish: “Jersón”
  • Spanish: “Kherson”
  • Swahili: “Kherson”
  • Swedish: “Cherson”
  • Tajik: “Херсун”
  • Talysh: “Xerson”
  • Tamil: “கெர்சன் நகரம்”
  • Tamil: “கேர்சன்”
  • Tatar: “Херсон”
  • Telugu: “ఖేర్సన్”
  • Telugu: “ఖ్రి సన్”
  • Thai: “แคร์ซอน”
  • Turkish: “Herson”
  • Udmurt: “Херсон”
  • Ukrainian: “Херсон”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Cherson”
  • Urdu: “خیرسون”
  • Uzbek: “Xerson”
  • Vietnamese: “Kherson”
  • Vlaams: “Cherson”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kherson”
  • Welsh: “Kherson”
  • Western Panjabi: “خیرسون”
  • Wu Chinese: “赫尔松”
  • Yakut: “Херсон”
  • Yakut: “Хэрсиэн”
  • Yue Chinese: “赫爾松”
  • Zeeuws: “Cherson”

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