Makhachkala
Makhachkala is the capital city of Dagestan and the largest city in the North Caucasus. It is one of the fastest growing cities in Russia and has a population of approximately 595,000.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 622,000 residents
- Description: city in Dagestan, Russia
- Also known as: “Machatsch-Kala”, “Makhachkala, Dagestan”, “Makhachkala, Russia”, “Petrovsk-Port”, and “Петровск”
- Address: городской округ Махачкала, 367000
- Postal code: 367000
Places of Interest
Highlights include Grand Mosque of Makhachkala and Maxim Gorky Russian State Drama Theatre.
Grand Mosque of Makhachkala
Mosque
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Grand Mosque of Makhachkala or Yusuf Bei Camii is the main mosque of the Republic of Dagestan, located in Makhachkala, Russia.
Maxim Gorky Russian State Drama Theatre
Theater building
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Maxim Gorky Russian State Drama Theatre is a theater building.
Gamzat Tsadasa Avar Music and Drama Theatre
Theater building
Photo: АбуУбайда, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gamzat Tsadasa Avar Music and Drama Theatre is a theater building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Alburikent and Tarki.
Alburikent
Town
Alburikent is an urban locality under the administrative jurisdiction of Sovetsky City District of the City of Makhachkala in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 12,413.
Tarki
Town
Photo: Ksenia Romanenko, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tarki formerly also spelled Tarkou and also known as Tarku, is an urban locality under the administrative jurisdiction of Sovetsky City District of the City of Makhachkala in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia, located on the Tarki-tau mountain.
Kyakhulay
Town
Kyakhulay is an urban locality under the administrative jurisdiction of Sovetsky City District of the City of Makhachkala in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. At the 2010 Census, its population was 6,962.
Makhachkala
- Categories: big city, port, and locality
- Location: Dagestan, North Caucasus, Southern Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.983° or 42° 58′ 59″ northLongitude
47.5049° or 47° 30′ 18″ eastPopulation
622,000Elevation
-10 metres (-33 feet)Inception
1844IATA airport code
MCXUnited Nations Location Code
RU MCXOpen location code
8HJ9XGM3+6WOpenStreetMap ID
node 191644503OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Makhachkala” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Machatsjkala”
- Arabic: “محج قلعة”
- Armenian: “Մախաչկալա”
- Asturian: “Majachkalá”
- Avaric: “МахIачхъала”
- Avaric: “МахІачхъала”
- Avaric: “МахӀачхъала”
- Azerbaijani: “Mahaçqala”
- Bashkir: “Махачҡала”
- Basque: “Makhatxkala”
- Belarusian: “Махачкала”
- Belarusian: “Шаміль-Кала”
- Bengali: “ম্যাকাচালা”
- Bulgarian: “Махачкала”
- Catalan: “Makhatxkalà”
- Cebuano: “Makhachkala”
- Chechen: “ХӀинжа-ГӀала”
- Chinese: “Makhachkala”
- Chinese: “馬哈奇卡拉”
- Chinese: “马哈奇卡拉”
- Chuvash: “Махачкала”
- Crimean Tatar: “Mahaçqala”
- Croatian: “Mahačkala”
- Czech: “Machačkala”
- Danish: “Makhatjkala”
- Dargwa: “ГIянжи-Къала”
- Dutch: “Machatsjkala”
- Eastern Mari: “Махачкала”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ماخاتشكالا”
- Erzya: “Махачкала ош”
- Esperanto: “Maĥaĉkala”
- Esperanto: “Maĥaĉkalao”
- Estonian: “Mahhatškala”
- Finnish: “Mahatškala”
- French: “Makhatchkala”
- Georgian: “მაჰაჩყალა”
- German: “Machatschkala”
- Greek: “Μαχατσκαλά”
- Gujarati: “મખચકાલા”
- Hakka Chinese: “Makhachkala”
- Hebrew: “מחצ’קלה”
- Hebrew: “מחצקלה”
- Hindi: “मखष्कला”
- Hungarian: “Mahacskala”
- Ido: “Mahachkala”
- Indonesian: “Makhachkala”
- Ingush: “Махача-Кхала”
- Ingush: “Махачкхаьлл”
- Irish: “Makhachkala”
- Italian: “Machačkala”
- Japanese: “マハチカラ”
- Kabardian: “Махачкъалэ”
- Kabardian: “Мэхьэчкъалэ”
- Kalmyk: “Махачкала балһсн”
- Kannada: “ಮಖಚ್ಕಲಾ”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Maxashkala”
- Kashubian: “Machaczkała”
- Kazakh: “Махачқала”
- Kirghiz: “Махачкала”
- Komi: “Махачкала”
- Korean: “마하치칼라”
- Kumyk: “Анжи”
- Ladin: “Mahachkala”
- Ladin: “Mahatsckala”
- Lak: “Анжи”
- Lak: “Гьанжи”
- Lak: “Махӏачкъала”
- Latin: “Machaczkala”
- Latvian: “Mahačkala”
- Lezghian: “Магьачкъала”
- Lithuanian: “Machačkala”
- Lombard: “Machačkala”
- Lower Sorbian: “Machačkala”
- Luxembourgish: “Machatschkala”
- Macedonian: “Махачкала”
- Malay: “Makhachkala”
- Malayalam: “മഖാച്കാല”
- Marathi: “मखच्कला”
- Mazanderani: “ماخاچ کلا”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Makhachkala”
- Mingrelian: “მახაჩყალა”
- Mingrelian: “მაჰაჩყალა”
- Moksha: “Махачкала”
- Mongolian: “Махачкала”
- Northern Frisian: “Machatschkala”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Makhatsjkala”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Makhatsjkala”
- Norwegian: “Makhatsjkala”
- Ossetian: “Махачкала”
- Persian: “مخاچقلعه”
- Polish: “Machaczkała”
- Portuguese: “Mahackala”
- Portuguese: “Makhachkala”
- Portuguese: “Makhatchkala”
- Pushto: “مخاچ کلا”
- Romanian: “Mahacikala”
- Russia Buriat: “Махачкала”
- Russian: “Махачкала”
- Russian: “Петровск-Порт”
- Russian: “Петровское”
- Scots: “Makhachkala”
- Serbian: “Махачкала”
- Silesian: “Machaczkala”
- Sinhala: “මකච්කාලා”
- Slovak: “Machačkala”
- Slovenian: “Mahačkala”
- South Azerbaijani: “مخاچقلعه”
- Spanish: “Majachkala”
- Spanish: “Majachkalá”
- Swahili: “Mahachkala”
- Swedish: “Machatjkala”
- Swedish: “Petrovsk”
- Tabassaran: “Магьачкъала”
- Tagalog: “Makhachkala”
- Tajik: “Махачкала”
- Talysh: “Mahackala”
- Talysh: “Mahaçqala”
- Tamil: “மஹாச்காலா”
- Tatar: “Махачкала”
- Telugu: “మఖచ్కల”
- Thai: “มาฮัชคาลา”
- Thai: “อันจีมาคัชคาลา”
- Tumbuka: “Makhachkala”
- Turkish: “Mahaçkale”
- Turkmen: “Mahaçkala”
- Udmurt: “Махачкала”
- Ukrainian: “Махачкала”
- Upper Sorbian: “Machačkala”
- Urdu: “مخاچ قلعہ”
- Uzbek: “Mahachqalʼa”
- Uzbek: “Maxachqala”
- Venetian: “Machačkala”
- Veps: “Mahačkal”
- Vietnamese: “Makhachkala”
- Waray (Philippines): “Makhachkala”
- Welsh: “Makhachkala”
- Western Panjabi: “مخاچ قلعہ”
- Wu Chinese: “马哈奇卡拉”
- Yakut: “Махачкала”
- Yue Chinese: “馬哈奇卡拉”
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