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Mari El

Mari El is a region in the , bordering to the west, to the north, to the southeast, and to the south.
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is the capital of Mari El in the of the Russian Federation. The city was founded in 1584 during the reign of Ivan IV The Terrible as a fortification post with the purpose of controlling the newly annexed Kazan Khanate.

Mari El

Latitude
56.5768° or 56° 34′ 36″ north
Longitude
47.8818° or 47° 52′ 54″ east
Population
682,000
Elevation
89 metres (292 feet)
Open location code
9H89HVGJ+PP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 607014878
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
529352
Wiki­data ID
Q5446
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Mari El” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Republik Mari El”
  • Afrikaans: “Mari El”
  • Albanian: “Mari El”
  • Arabic: “ماري إل”
  • Armenian: “Մարի Էլ”
  • Armenian: “Մարիյ Էլ”
  • Asturian: “Mari El”
  • Asturian: “República de Mari-El”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mari El”
  • Bashkir: “Марий Эл”
  • Basque: “Mari El”
  • Belarusian: “Марый Эл”
  • Bengali: “মারি এল প্রজাতন্ত্র”
  • Bosnian: “Marij El”
  • Breton: “Mariy El”
  • Bulgarian: “Марий Ел”
  • Catalan: “Marí El”
  • Cebuano: “Respublika Mariy-El”
  • Chechen: “Марий Эл”
  • Chechen: “Республика Марий Эл”
  • Chinese: “Mari El”
  • Chinese: “馬里埃爾”
  • Chinese: “马里埃尔共和国”
  • Chuvash: “Мари Эл”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Mariy El”
  • Croatian: “Marij El”
  • Croatian: “Marijska”
  • Czech: “Marij El”
  • Czech: “Marijská republika”
  • Czech: “Marijsko”
  • Danish: “Mari El”
  • Danish: “Republikken Marij El”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Mari El”
  • Dutch: “Mari El”
  • Dutch: “Mari-El”
  • Dutch: “Republiek Mari El”
  • Eastern Mari: “Mari El”
  • Eastern Mari: “Mariy El”
  • Eastern Mari: “Republic of Mari El”
  • Eastern Mari: “Марий Эл”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مارى ال”
  • Erzya: “Маринь Республикась”
  • Esperanto: “Mariio”
  • Estonian: “Marimaa”
  • Finnish: “Marin tasavalta”
  • French: “Mari El”
  • French: “République de Maris”
  • French: “république des Maris”
  • French: “République des Maris”
  • Gagauz: “Mari El”
  • Galician: “Mari El”
  • Galician: “República de Mari El”
  • Galician: “República dos Maris”
  • Georgian: “მარი ელი”
  • Georgian: “მარი-ელი”
  • German: “Mari El”
  • Greek: “Δημοκρατία της Μαρί Ελ”
  • Greek: “Δημοκρατία της Μαρίι Ελ”
  • Greek: “Μαρί Ελ”
  • Gujarati: “મારી અલ રિપબ્લિક”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Mari El Khiung-fò-koet”
  • Hebrew: “מארי אל”
  • Hindi: “मरी ऍल”
  • Hindi: “मारी एल गणराज्य”
  • Hungarian: “Mariföld”
  • Ido: “Republiko Mari El”
  • Inari Sami: “Mari täsiväldi”
  • Indonesian: “Mari El”
  • Indonesian: “Republik Mari El”
  • Inupiaq: “Marialaq”
  • Inupiaq: “Mariiaq Nuna”
  • Irish: “Mairí El”
  • Italian: “Repubblica dei Mari”
  • Japanese: “マリ・エル共和国”
  • Kalmyk: “Чермс таңһч”
  • Kannada: “ಮಾರಿ ಎಲ್ ರಿಪಬ್ಲಿಕ್”
  • Kazakh: “Марий Эл”
  • Kirghiz: “Марий Эл Республикасы”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Мариму”
  • Komi: “Мари Эл”
  • Korean: “마리엘 공화국”
  • Korean: “마리엘”
  • Korean: “마리옐 공화국”
  • Korean: “마리옐”
  • Latin: “Mari El”
  • Latin: “Respublica Mari El”
  • Latvian: “Marijela”
  • Latvian: “Marijelas Republika”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Republica de Mari El”
  • Lithuanian: “Marių Respublika”
  • Livvi: “Mari-El”
  • Lombard: “Republega de Mari”
  • Low German: “Mari El”
  • Macedonian: “Мариј Ел”
  • Malay: “Mari El”
  • Marathi: “मारी एल प्रजासत्ताक”
  • Marathi: “मारी एल”
  • Mari (Russia): “Марий Эл Республик”
  • Mazanderani: “ماری ال جمهوری”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Mari El”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Mari El”
  • Mingrelian: “მარი-ელი”
  • Mongolian: “Мари Эл”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mari El”
  • Northern Sami: “Mari dásseváldi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mari El”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mari El”
  • Norwegian: “Mari El”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Republica dels Maris”
  • Ossetian: “Марий Эл”
  • Persian: “ماری ال”
  • Polish: “Mari El”
  • Portuguese: “Mari El”
  • Pushto: “ماري اېل جمهوريت”
  • Romanian: “Mari El”
  • Romanian: “Republica Mari El”
  • Russia Buriat: “Марий Эл”
  • Russia Buriat: “Марий Ээл Республика”
  • Russian: “Марий Эл”
  • Russian: “Марий-Эл”
  • Russian: “Республика Марий Эл”
  • Russian: “Республика Марий-Эл”
  • Scots: “Mari El”
  • Serbian: “Мари Ел”
  • Serbian: “Мариј Ел”
  • Serbian: “Република Мари Ел”
  • Serbian: “Република Мариј Ел”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mari El”
  • Sinhala: “මාරි එල් ජනරජය”
  • Skolt Sami: “Mari tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Marijânnam”
  • Slovak: “Marijsko”
  • Slovenian: “Marij El”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ماری ال”
  • Spanish: “Mari-El”
  • Sundanese: “Mari Él”
  • Swahili: “Mari El”
  • Swedish: “Marij El”
  • Tagalog: “Mari El”
  • Talysh: “Mari El”
  • Talysh: “Marij El”
  • Tamil: “மாரி எல் ரிபப்லிக்”
  • Tamil: “மாரீ எல்”
  • Tatar: “Мари Ил”
  • Tatar: “Мари Иле”
  • Telugu: “మారిఎల్ రిపబ్లిక్”
  • Thai: “มารีเอล”
  • Thai: “สาธารณรัฐมารีเอล”
  • Turkish: “Mari El”
  • Udmurt: “Марий Эл Республика”
  • Udmurt: “Марий Эл”
  • Uighur: “مارى”
  • Ukrainian: “Марій Ел”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Mari El”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Marijska”
  • Urdu: “ماری ال”
  • Uzbek: “Mariy El Respublikasi”
  • Uzbek: “Mariy el”
  • Uzbek: “Mariy El”
  • Veps: “Marii Elan Tazovaldkund”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Mari El”
  • Vietnamese: “Mari El”
  • Võro: “Marimaa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mari El”
  • Welsh: “Mari El”
  • Western Frisian: “Mari El”
  • Western Mari: “Мары Эл Республик”
  • Western Panjabi: “ماری ال”
  • Wu Chinese: “马里埃尔共和国”
  • Yakut: “Марий Эл”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬里埃爾”
  • “Marimaa”

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