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Kyiv

Kyiv is the capital of , as well as the country's largest and most vibrant city. It is a city where the golden domes of Orthodox cathedrals sit amidst royal palaces and the grey concrete of Soviet Brutalist buildings.
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  • Type: City with 2,950,000 residents
  • Description: capital and largest city of Ukraine
  • Also known as: “Kief”, “Kieff”, “Kiew”, “Kiof”, “Kioff”, “Kiou”, “Kiovia”, “Kiow”, “Kiowia”, “Kiyev”, “Kyïv”, “Kyiw”, “Kyjiv”, “Kyjiw”, “Kyyiv”, “Kyїv”, and “Київ”
  • Historically known as: “Kiev”
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Photo: Ryzhkov Oleksandr, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Saint Sophia Cathedral and Olimpiyskiy National Sports Complex.

Church
Photo: Rbrechko, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The in Kyiv, Ukraine, is an architectural monument of Kyivan Rus'. The former cathedral is one of the city's best known landmarks and the first heritage site in Ukraine to be inscribed on the World Heritage List along with the Kyiv Cave Monastery complex.

Sports venue
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The Olympic Stadium is a multi-use sports and recreation facility in Kyiv, Ukraine, located on the slopes of the city's central , .

Photo: Romankravchuk, CC BY-SA 4.0.
House with Chimaeras or Horodetsky House is an Art Nouveau building located in the historic neighborhood of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. Situated across the street from the President of Ukraine's office at No.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Podil and Askold’s Grave.

Suburb
or Podol, also known in English as the Lower City, is a historic neighborhood in Kyiv, the capital of . It is located on a floodplain terrace over the between the Kyiv Hills and the lower stream of Pochaina River.

Neighborhood
Photo: Taras Shevchenko, Public domain.
Askold's Grave is a historical on the steep right bank of the Dnipro River in Kyiv between Mariinskyi Park and the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra complex. The park was created by the Soviets in the mid-1930s in place of an old graveyard around the Church of St.

Quarter
is a historical neighborhood of Kyiv. Other names include Upper City, Old Town, and others. It is located at the far eastern portion of the Shevchenkivskyi District.

Kyiv

Latitude
50.451° or 50° 27′ 4″ north
Longitude
30.5227° or 30° 31′ 22″ east
Population
2,950,000
Elevation
187 metres (614 feet)
IATA airport code
IEV
United Nations Location Code
UA IEV
Open location code
9G2GFG2F+93
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26150422
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
703448
Wiki­data ID
Q1899
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Kyiv” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Киев”
  • Abkhazian: “Кыив”
  • Adyghe: “Киев”
  • Afrikaans: “Kiëf”
  • Afrikaans: “Kijif”
  • Afrikaans: “Kyiv”
  • Albanian: “Kievi”
  • Albanian: “Київ”
  • Amharic: “Київ”
  • Amharic: “ኪየቭ”
  • Arabic: “كييف”
  • Aragonese: “Kiev”
  • Aragonese: “Kyiv”
  • Armenian: “Կիև”
  • Arpitan: “Kyiv”
  • Asturian: “Kiev”
  • Asturian: “Kyiv”
  • Avaric: “Киев”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kiev”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kiyev”
  • Azerbaijani: “Київ”
  • Balinese: “Kyiv”
  • Bashkir: “Киев”
  • Basque: “Kiev”
  • Basque: “Kyiv”
  • Bavarian: “Kiew”
  • Bavarian: “Київ”
  • Belarusian: “Київ”
  • Belarusian: “Кіеў”
  • Bengali: “কিয়েভ”
  • Betawi: “Kiip”
  • Bhojpuri: “किएफ़”
  • Bhojpuri: “कीअ”
  • Bhojpuri: “कीएफ़”
  • Bhojpuri: “कीफ़”
  • Bhojpuri: “कीव”
  • Bosnian: “Kijev”
  • Breton: “Kyiv”
  • Breton: “Kyyiv”
  • Bulgarian: “Киев”
  • Bulgarian: “Кѝев”
  • Burmese: “ကီးယက်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Kíev”
  • Catalan: “Kíiv”
  • Catalan: “Кíev”
  • Cebuano: “Kiev”
  • Cebuano: “Kyiv”
  • Central Bikol: “Kiev”
  • Central Bikol: “Kyiv”
  • Central Kurdish: “کیێڤ”
  • Chechen: “Киев”
  • Chechen: “Ки́ев”
  • Chinese: “Kyiv”
  • Chinese: “基輔”
  • Chinese: “基辅”
  • Church Slavic: “Кꙑѥвъ”
  • Chuvash: “Кейӳ”
  • Chuvash: “Киев”
  • Corsican: “Kiev”
  • Corsican: “Kyiv”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Kiyev”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Kıyiv”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Кыйив”
  • Croatian: “Kijev”
  • Croatian: “Kijiv”
  • Croatian: “Ки́ев”
  • Croatian: “Ки́їв”
  • Czech: “Kijev”
  • Czech: “Kyjev”
  • Czech: “Kyjiv”
  • Dagbani: “Kiev”
  • Danish: “Kiev”
  • Danish: “Kijev”
  • Danish: “Kyiv”
  • Danish: “Kyjiv”
  • Danish: “Kyyiv”
  • Danish: “Київ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kiew”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kyiv”
  • Dutch: “Kiev”
  • Dutch: “Kiew”
  • Dutch: “Kyiv”
  • Dutch: “Kyjiv”
  • Eastern Mari: “Киев”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كييف”
  • Erzya: “Киев ош”
  • Esperanto: “Kievo”
  • Esperanto: “Kijivo”
  • Estonian: “Kiiev”
  • Estonian: “Kõjiv”
  • Extremaduran: “Kiev”
  • Extremaduran: “Kyiv”
  • Faroese: “Kyiv”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Kiev”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Kyiv”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Київ”
  • Finnish: “Kiova”
  • Finnish: “Kyiv”
  • French: “Kiev”
  • French: “Kyiv”
  • French: “Kyïv”
  • Fulah: “Kyiv”
  • Gagauz: “Kiev”
  • Gagauz: “Kıyiv”
  • Galician: “Kíiv”
  • Georgian: “კიევი”
  • German: “Kiew”
  • German: “Kyiv”
  • German: “Kyiw”
  • German: “Kyjiw”
  • German: “Київ”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Kyiv”
  • Gothic: “𐌺𐍉𐌽𐌾𐌿𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌳𐍃”
  • Greek: “Κίεβο”
  • Guarani: “Kiev”
  • Guarani: “Kyiv”
  • Guarani: “Táva”
  • Guarani: “Ukyáña táva”
  • Guarani: “Ukyáña tavusu”
  • Gujarati: “ક્યીવ”
  • Gun: “Kyiv”
  • Haitian: “Kyèv”
  • Haitian: “Київ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kyiv”
  • Hausa: “Kiev”
  • Hausa: “Kyiv”
  • Hawaiian: “Kiev”
  • Hawaiian: “Kiewa”
  • Hebrew: “Киев”
  • Hebrew: “Київ”
  • Hebrew: “קייב”
  • Hindi: “कीव”
  • Hungarian: “Kijev”
  • Hungarian: “Kijiv”
  • Hungarian: “Kíjó” (historical)
  • Hungarian: “Kő” (historical)
  • Icelandic: “Kænugarður”
  • Icelandic: “Kíev”
  • Icelandic: “Kyjív”
  • Ido: “Kiyiv”
  • Ido: “Kyiv”
  • Ido: “Київ”
  • Iloko: “Kiev”
  • Iloko: “Kyiv”
  • Iloko: “Київ”
  • Inari Sami: “Kiova”
  • Indonesian: “Kiev”
  • Indonesian: “Kyiv”
  • Ingush: “Киев”
  • Interlingua: “Kiev”
  • Interlingua: “Kiovia”
  • Interlingua: “Київ”
  • Interlingue: “Kiev”
  • Interlingue: “Kyiv”
  • Interlingue: “Київ”
  • Irish: “Cív”
  • Irish: “Київ”
  • Italian: “Chiovia” (historical)
  • Italian: “Kiev”
  • Italian: “Kiyv”
  • Italian: “Kyiv”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Kiev”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Kyiv”
  • Japanese: “キーウ”
  • Japanese: “キーヴ”
  • Japanese: “キーフ”
  • Japanese: “キイウ”
  • Japanese: “キイフ”
  • Japanese: “キエフ”
  • Javanese: “Kiev”
  • Javanese: “Kiyèf”
  • Javanese: “Київ”
  • Kabiyè: “Kiivi”
  • Kabiyè: “Kiyɛɛvɩ”
  • Kabyle: “Kiev”
  • Kabyle: “Kyif”
  • Kabyle: “Kyiv”
  • Kabyle: “Kyiw”
  • Kabyle: “Kyyiv”
  • Kalaallisut: “Kyiv”
  • Kalmyk: “Киев”
  • Kannada: “ಕೀವ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Kiev”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Kyiv”
  • Kashmiri: “کیٖو”
  • Kashubian: “Czijew”
  • Kashubian: “Kyiv”
  • Kashubian: “Київ”
  • Kazakh: “Kiev qalasy”
  • Kazakh: “Kiev”
  • Kazakh: “Kyiv qalasy”
  • Kazakh: “Kyiv”
  • Kazakh: “Киев қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Киев”
  • Kazakh: “Київ”
  • Khmer: “កៀវ”
  • Kildin Sami: “Кыййв”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Kyiv”
  • Kirghiz: “Кейип”
  • Kirghiz: “Киев”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Киев”
  • Komi: “Киев”
  • Komi: “Кыйив”
  • Kongo: “Kyiv”
  • Korean: “끼예브”
  • Korean: “크이우”
  • Korean: “키예프”
  • Korean: “키이우”
  • Kotava: “Kyiv”
  • Kurdish: “Kîev”
  • Kurdish: “Kiyev”
  • Kurdish: “Kiyîv”
  • Ladin: “Kiev”
  • Ladin: “Kyiv”
  • Ladino: “Kyiv”
  • Ladino: “Київ”
  • Lao: “ຄີຟ”
  • Lao: “ຄຽບ”
  • Latgalian: “Kijiva”
  • Latin: “Kiovia”
  • Latvian: “Kijeva”
  • Latvian: “Kijiva”
  • Lezghian: “Киев”
  • Ligurian: “Kiev”
  • Ligurian: “Kyiv”
  • Limburgan: “Kiev”
  • Limburgan: “Kyiv”
  • Lingala: “Kyjiw”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Ciiv”
  • Literary Chinese: “基輔”
  • Lithuanian: “Kijevas”
  • Lithuanian: “Kyjivas”
  • Livvi: “Kijev”
  • Lombard: “Kiev”
  • Lombard: “Kyiv”
  • Low German: “Kiew”
  • Low German: “Київ”
  • Lower Silesian: “Kijew”
  • Lower Silesian: “Kyjiw”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Kijew”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Київ”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kiev”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kiew”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kyiv”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kyjiw”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Kiev”
  • Macedonian: “Киев”
  • Madurese: “Kyiv”
  • Magahi: “कीव”
  • Malagasy: “Kiev”
  • Malagasy: “Kyiv”
  • Malay: “Kiev”
  • Malay: “Kyiv”
  • Malay: “Київ”
  • Malay: “کيۏ”
  • Malayalam: “കീവ്”
  • Maltese: “Kiev”
  • Maltese: “Kjev”
  • Maltese: “Kjiv”
  • Maltese: “Kyiv”
  • Manx: “Kyiv”
  • Maori: “Kieu”
  • Marathi: “क्यीव”
  • Mazanderani: “کییف”
  • Mazanderani: “کی‌یف”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Kyiv”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kiev”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kyiv”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kyyiv”
  • Minangkabau: “Kyiv”
  • Mingrelian: “კიევი”
  • Moksha: “Киев”
  • Moksha: “Кыив ош”
  • Moksha: “Кыив”
  • Moksha: “Кыйив”
  • Mongolian: “Киев”
  • Mongolian: “Київ”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كييڤ”
  • Nauru: “Kiev”
  • Navajo: “Tsinaaʼeełíkʼeh”
  • Nepali: “किभ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kiew”
  • Northern Frisian: “Київ”
  • Northern Luri: “کی یف”
  • Northern Sami: “Kiova”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kænugardr”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kiev”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kønugardr”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kyiv”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kyjiv”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Київ”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kiev”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kyiv”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Київ”
  • Norwegian: “Kyiv”
  • Novial: “Kiyev”
  • Nyanja: “Kyiv”
  • Obolo: “Kyiv”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kyiiv”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Cænugeard”
  • Old Norse: “Kænugarður”
  • Ossetian: “Киев”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੀਵ”
  • Papiamento: “Kiev”
  • Papiamento: “Kyiv”
  • Persian: “کیف”
  • Persian: “کی‌یف”
  • Piemontese: “Chijv”
  • Piemontese: “Kijv”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Kiev”
  • Polish: “Kijów”
  • Pontic: “Κίεβο”
  • Portuguese: “Kiev”
  • Portuguese: “Kyiv”
  • Portuguese: “Київ”
  • Pushto: “کيېف”
  • Pushto: “کییف”
  • Quechua: “Kiyiw”
  • Romanian: “Kiev”
  • Romanian: “Kyiv”
  • Romanian: “Киев”
  • Romansh: “Kiev”
  • Romansh: “Kyiv”
  • Russia Buriat: “Киев”
  • Russia Buriat: “Київ”
  • Russian: “Киев”
  • Russian: “Киевом”
  • Russian: “Киеву”
  • Rusyn: “Київ”
  • Rusyn: “Кієв”
  • Sakizaya: “Ci-pu”
  • Samogitian: “Kijevs”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱤᱭᱮᱵᱷ”
  • Sardinian: “Kiev”
  • Sardinian: “Kyiv”
  • Scots: “Kiev”
  • Scots: “Kyiv”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Kiev”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Kyiv”
  • Serbian: “Кијев”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kijev”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Київ”
  • Shona: “Kyiv”
  • Sicilian: “Kiev”
  • Sicilian: “Kyiv”
  • Silesian: “Kijůw”
  • Silesian: “Kyjōw”
  • Silesian: “Київ”
  • Sindhi: “ڪيف”
  • Sinhala: “කිව”
  • Sinhala: “කිව්”
  • Slovak: “Kyjev”
  • Slovenian: “Kijev”
  • Slovenian: “Київ”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کیئف”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کی‌یئف”
  • Southern Sotho: “Kyїv”
  • Spanish: “Kie”
  • Spanish: “Kief”
  • Spanish: “Kiev”
  • Spanish: “Kiew”
  • Spanish: “Kyiv”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Kyiv”
  • Swahili: “Kiev”
  • Swahili: “Kyiv”
  • Swahili: “Київ”
  • Swedish: “Kiev”
  • Swedish: “Kyiv”
  • Swedish: “Київ”
  • Swiss German: “Kiew”
  • Sylheti: “ꠇꠤꠄꠛ ꠘꠉꠞ”
  • Sylheti: “ꠇꠤꠅꠛ”
  • Tachelhit: “Kyiv”
  • Tagalog: “Kiev”
  • Tagalog: “Kyiv”
  • Tagalog: “Київ”
  • Tajik: “Киев”
  • Tajik: “Киив”
  • Tajik: “Кыйив”
  • Talysh: “Kijev”
  • Talysh: “Kıyiv”
  • Tamil: “கீவ்”
  • Tatar: “Киев”
  • Telugu: “కియవ్”
  • Telugu: “కీవ్”
  • Telugu: “క్యివ్”
  • Thai: “กือยิว”
  • Thai: “เคียฟ”
  • Tibetan: “ཀིབ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ኪየቭ”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Kiivi”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Kyivi”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Kiew”
  • Tumbuka: “Kyiv”
  • Turkish: “Kiev”
  • Turkish: “Kyiv”
  • Turkmen: “Kiýew”
  • Turkmen: “Kyýiw”
  • Tuvinian: “Киев”
  • Twi: “Kiev”
  • Twi: “Kyiv”
  • Tyap: “Kyip”
  • Udmurt: “Киев”
  • Udmurt: “Київ”
  • Uighur: “كىيېۋ”
  • Ukrainian: “Київ”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kijew”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Київ”
  • Urdu: “کیئف”
  • Urdu: “کیف”
  • Uzbek: “Kiyev”
  • Venetian: “Kiev”
  • Venetian: “Kyiv”
  • Veps: “Kijev”
  • Vietnamese: “Ki ép”
  • Vietnamese: “Ki-ép”
  • Vietnamese: “Kiev”
  • Vietnamese: “Kyiv”
  • Vietnamese: “Kyyiv”
  • Vietnamese: “Київ”
  • Vlaams: “Kiev”
  • Vlaams: “Kyiv”
  • Vlax Romani: “Kiev”
  • Vlax Romani: “Kyiv”
  • Vlax Romani: “Київ”
  • Volapük: “Küyiv”
  • Volapük: “Київ”
  • Võro: “Kiiova”
  • Võro: “Київ”
  • Walloon: “Kiyif”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kiev”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kyiv”
  • Welsh: “Cïef”
  • Welsh: “Kyiv”
  • Western Armenian: “Քիեւ”
  • Western Frisian: “Kiev”
  • Western Frisian: “Kiëv”
  • Western Mari: “Киев”
  • Western Mari: “Київ”
  • Western Panjabi: “کیف”
  • Wolof: “Kiyew”
  • Wu Chinese: “基辅”
  • Xhosa: “Kyiv”
  • Yakut: “Киев”
  • Yiddish: “קיעוו”
  • Yoruba: “Kiev”
  • Yoruba: “Kyiv”
  • Yue Chinese: “基輔”
  • Zeeuws: “Kiev”
  • Zeeuws: “Kyiv”
  • Zeeuws: “Київ”
  • Zhuang: “Gihfuj”
  • Zulu: “IKiyevi”
  • “Kiev”
  • “Kiiova”
  • “Kijevs”
  • “Kyiv”
  • “ma tomo Kiju”
  • “Киев”
  • “Київ”
  • “कीव”

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