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.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Yoshkar-Ola CHPP-2.

Power station
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is a power station.

Mari El

  • Type: State with 682,000 residents
  • Description: federal subject of Russia
  • Also known as: “Mari A.S.S.R.”, “Mari El Republic”, “Marijânnam”, “Marijelas Republika”, “Marijská republika”, “Mariy El Respublikasi”, “Mariy-El”, “Mariy-El Republic”, “Republic of Mari El”, “República de Mari El”, “Republica Mari El”, “Republiek Mari El”, “république des Maris”, “Respublica Mari El”, “Δημοκρατία της Μαρίι Ελ”, “Република Мари Ел”, “Република Мариј Ел”, “मारी एल गणराज्य”, “மாரி எல் ரிபப்லிக்”, “มารีเอล”, “마리엘”, “마리엘 공화국”, and “마리옐”
  • Historically known as: “Mariyskaya ASSR” and “Mariyskaya Avtonomnaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika”
  • Neighbors: , , , and
  • Categories: republic of Russia, federal subject of Russia, and locality
  • Location: , , ,
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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 Abkhazian to Yue Chinese—“Mari El” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Мари Ел”
  • Achinese: “Republik Mari El”
  • Afrikaans: “Mari El”
  • Albanian: “Mari El”
  • Amharic: “ማሪ-ኤል ሪፐብሊክ”
  • 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: “马里埃尔共和国”
  • Church Slavic: “Марїи Элъ”
  • Chuvash: “Мари Эл”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Mariy El”
  • Croatian: “Marij El”
  • Croatian: “Marijska”
  • Czech: “Marij El”
  • Czech: “Marijsko”
  • Danish: “Mari El”
  • Danish: “Republikken Marij El”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Mari El”
  • Dutch: “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”
  • Gagauz: “Mari El”
  • Galician: “Mari El”
  • Galician: “República dos Maris”
  • Georgian: “მარი ელი”
  • Georgian: “მარი-ელი”
  • German: “Mari El”
  • Greek: “Δημοκρατία της Μαρί Ελ”
  • Greek: “Μαρί Ελ”
  • Gujarati: “મારી અલ રિપબ્લિક”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Mari El Khiung-fò-koet”
  • Hausa: “Mariy-El Republic”
  • Hebrew: “מארי אל”
  • Hindi: “मरी ऍल”
  • Hungarian: “Mariföld”
  • Ido: “Republiko Mari El”
  • Inari Sami: “Mari täsiväldi”
  • Indonesian: “Mari El”
  • Interlingue: “Mari El”
  • Inupiaq: “Marialaq”
  • Inupiaq: “Mariiaq Nuna”
  • Irish: “Mairí El”
  • Italian: “Repubblica dei Mari”
  • Japanese: “マリ・エル共和国”
  • Javanese: “Republik Mari-El”
  • Kalmyk: “Чермс таңһч”
  • Kannada: “ಮಾರಿ ಎಲ್ ರಿಪಬ್ಲಿಕ್”
  • Kazakh: “Марий Эл”
  • Kirghiz: “Марий Эл Республикасы”
  • Kirghiz: “Марий Эл”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Мариму”
  • Komi: “Мари Эл”
  • Korean: “마리옐 공화국”
  • Latin: “Mari El”
  • Latvian: “Marijela”
  • 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”
  • Oromo: “Respublikaa Mari-El”
  • Ossetian: “Марий Эл”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਾਰੀ-ਐਲ ਗਣਰਾਜ”
  • Persian: “ماری ال”
  • Polish: “Mari El”
  • Portuguese: “Mari El”
  • Pushto: “ماري اېل جمهوريت”
  • Romanian: “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: “Мариј Ел”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mari El”
  • Sindhi: “ماري ايل”
  • Sinhala: “මාරි එල් ජනරජය”
  • Skolt Sami: “Mari tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Slovak: “Marijsko”
  • Slovenian: “Marij El”
  • Somali: “Mariy-El Republic”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ماری ال”
  • Spanish: “Mari-El”
  • Sundanese: “Mari Él”
  • Swahili: “Mari El”
  • Swedish: “Marij El”
  • Swedish: “Marirepubliken”
  • Tagalog: “Mari El”
  • Tajik: “Jumhuриби Марий-Эл”
  • Talysh: “Mari El”
  • Talysh: “Marij El”
  • Tamil: “மாரீ எல்”
  • Tatar: “Мари Ил”
  • Tatar: “Мари Иле”
  • Telugu: “మారిఎల్ రిపబ్లిక్”
  • Thai: “สาธารณรัฐมารีเอล”
  • Turkish: “Mari El”
  • Udmurt: “Марий Эл Республика”
  • Udmurt: “Марий Эл”
  • Uighur: “مارى”
  • Ukrainian: “Марій Ел”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Mari El”
  • Urdu: “ماری ال”
  • 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”
  • “Marij El”

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