Kunashir
Kunashir is the southernmost of the Kuril Islands in Russia's Sakhalin Oblast. The island is also 24 km away from Hokkaido, Japan, and is known as Kunashiri there. The native Ainu name Kunashir possibly means Black Island or Grass Island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Yuzhno-Kurilsk
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Yuzhno-Kurilsk population: 7 800, is the main town of the Kuril islands, in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia. It is on the mouth of the Sevebryanka river at the Yuzhno-Kurilsky cape, on Kunashir island - or 'Black Island' in the indigenous Ainu language.
Kunashir
- Type: Island
- Description: island in South Kuril Islands
- Also known as: “Kunajiri Island”, “Kunashir Island”, “Kunashiri Island”, “Kunashiri-Jima”, “Kunashiri-shima”, “Kunasiri Sima”, “Kunasirizima”, and “Kunazirizima”
- Categories: disputed territory and landform
- Location: Yuzhno-Kurilsky District, Sakhalin Oblast, Russian Far East, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Kunashir” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Kunashir”
- Achinese: “Pulo Kunashir”
- Afrikaans: “Koenasjir”
- Ainu (Japan): “クナシㇼ”
- Ainu (Japan): “クナシリトウ”
- Arabic: “جزيرة كوناشير”
- Azerbaijani: “Kunaşir”
- Basque: “Kunashir”
- Basque: “Kunaxir”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Кунашыр”
- Belarusian: “Кунашыр”
- Bulgarian: “Кунашир”
- Catalan: “Kunaixir”
- Catalan: “Kunashir”
- Cebuano: “Kunashir Island”
- Chinese: “Kunashir”
- Chinese: “国后岛”
- Chinese: “國後島”
- Chinese: “库纳希尔岛”
- Chinese: “庫納希爾”
- Chinese: “庫納希爾島”
- Chinese: “庫納施爾島”
- Czech: “Kunašir”
- Czech: “Kunaširi”
- Danish: “Kunasjir”
- Dutch: “Koenasjir”
- Dutch: “Kunashiri”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جزيره كوناشير”
- Esperanto: “Kunaŝiro”
- Estonian: “Kunašir”
- Finnish: “Kunashir”
- Finnish: “Kunashiri”
- Finnish: “Kunašir”
- French: “Kounachir”
- French: “Kunashir”
- Galician: “Kunashir”
- Georgian: “კუნაშირი”
- German: “Kunaschir”
- German: “Kunashir”
- German: “Kunashiri-to”
- German: “Kunashiri-tō”
- German: “Kunashiri”
- German: “Kunashirito”
- German: “Kunashiritō”
- Greek: “Κουνασίρ”
- Hebrew: “קונשיר”
- Indonesian: “Kunashir”
- Italian: “Kunashir”
- Italian: “Kunašir”
- Japanese: “Kunashiri-tō”
- Japanese: “Kunisuri-tŏ”
- Japanese: “クナシリ”
- Japanese: “くなしりとう”
- Japanese: “クナシリ島”
- Japanese: “クナシル島”
- Japanese: “国後”
- Japanese: “国後島”
- Javanese: “Kunashir”
- Kirghiz: “Кунашир”
- Korean: “구나시르 섬”
- Korean: “구나시리 섬”
- Korean: “쿠나시르 섬”
- Korean: “쿠나시르섬”
- Korean: “쿠나시리 섬”
- Latin: “Insula Cunasiria”
- Latvian: “Kunašira”
- Lithuanian: “Kunaširas”
- Macedonian: “Кунашир”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kunashir”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kunasjir”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kunashiri”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kunasjir”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Кунашир”
- Norwegian: “Kunasjir”
- Ossetian: “Кунашир”
- Persian: “جزیره کوناشیری”
- Polish: “Kunasziri”
- Polish: “Kunaszyr”
- Portuguese: “Kunashir”
- Russian: “Ostrov Kunashir”
- Russian: “Ostrov Kunasiri”
- Russian: “Двадцать первый”
- Russian: “Коносиръ”
- Russian: “Кунасири-то:”
- Russian: “Кунашир”
- Russian: “Кунашири”
- Russian: “Чёрный остров”
- Slovak: “Kunašir”
- Slovak: “Kunasiri-tó”
- Slovak: “Kunaširi”
- Slovenian: “Kunašir”
- Spanish: “Kunashir”
- Spanish: “Kunashiri”
- Swedish: “Kunasjir”
- Thai: “เกาะคูนาชีร์”
- Turkish: “Kunaşir Adası”
- Ukrainian: “Кунашир”
- Ukrainian: “Острів Кунасірі”
- Urdu: “جزیرہ کناشیر”
- Uzbek: “Kuvashir”
- Vietnamese: “Kunashir”
- Yue Chinese: “國後島”
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