Murmansk Oblast
Murmansk Oblast is the northernmost region of northwestern Russia, on the Kola Peninsula, which borders Finland's Lapland to the west, Norway's Finnmark Region to the northwest, the Barents Sea to the north, the White Sea to the southeast, and Karelia to the south.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Murmansk and Severomorsk.
Murmansk
Murmansk is a city in the extreme northwest of Russia and the world's largest city north of the Arctic Circle. It lies in the Kola Bay on the Kola Peninsula, by the Barents Sea.
Severomorsk
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Severomorsk, known as Vayenga until 18 April 1951, is a closed town in Murmansk Oblast, Russia. Severomorsk is the main administrative base of the Russian Northern Fleet.
Kandalaksha
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Kandalaksha is a city in Murmansk Oblast, northern Russia. It is one of the most active and famous tourist locations in the Murmansk region.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Kirovsk and Nikel.
Kirovsk
Kirovsk, known as Khibinogorsk until 1934, is a town in Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located at the spurs of the Khibiny Mountains on the shores of the Lake Bolshoy Vudyavr, 175 kilometers south of Murmansk. Population: 28,625 .
Nikel
Nikel is an urban locality and the administrative center of Pechengsky District of Murmansk Oblast, Russia, located on the shores of Lake Kuetsyarvi 196 kilometers northwest of Murmansk and 7 kilometers from the Norwegian border on E105.
Murmansk Oblast
- Type: State with 754,000 residents
- Description: federal subject of Russia
- Also known as: “Murmansk” and “Murmanskaya oblast”
- Neighbors: Arkhangelsk Oblast, Finnish Lapland, Finnmark, and Karelia
- Categories: oblast of Russia, federal subject of Russia, and locality
- Location: Northwestern Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude of center
68° or 68° 0′ 0″ northLongitude of center
33.9999° or 33° 59′ 60″ eastPopulation
754,000Elevation
946 metres (3,104 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 535136806OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Murmansk Oblast” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Oblast Murmansk”
- Afrikaans: “Moermansk-oblast”
- Arabic: “أوبلاست مورمانسك”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة مورمانسك”
- Armenian: “Մուրմանսկի մարզ”
- Asturian: “Óblast de Múrmansk”
- Azerbaijani: “Murmansk vilayəti”
- Bashkir: “Мурманск өлкәһе”
- Basque: “Murmansk oblasta”
- Belarusian: “Мурманская вобласць”
- Belarusian: “Мурманская вобласьць”
- Bengali: “মুরমানস্ক ওব্লাস্ট”
- Bosnian: “Murmanska oblast”
- Breton: “Oblast Mourmansk”
- Bulgarian: “Мурманска област”
- Catalan: “óblast de Múrmansk”
- Catalan: “Óblast de Múrmansk”
- Catalan: “província de Múrmansk”
- Catalan: “Província de Múrmansk”
- Cebuano: “Murmanskaya Oblast‘”
- Cebuano: “Murmanskaya Oblast’”
- Chechen: “Мурманскан область”
- Chinese: “Murmansk Chiu”
- Chinese: “摩尔曼斯克州”
- Chinese: “摩爾曼斯克州”
- Chinese: “莫曼斯克州”
- Chuvash: “Мурманск облаçĕ”
- Crimean Tatar: “Murmansk vilâyeti”
- Croatian: “Murmanska oblast”
- Czech: “Murmanská oblast”
- Danish: “Murmansk oblast”
- Dimli (individual language): “Murmansk”
- Dutch: “Moermansk”
- Dutch: “Oblast Moermansk”
- Eastern Mari: “Мурманск вел”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مورمانسك”
- Erzya: “Мурманонь ёнкс”
- Esperanto: “Murmanska provinco”
- Estonian: “Murmanski oblast”
- Finnish: “Murmanskaja oblast”
- Finnish: “Murmanskaya oblast”
- Finnish: “Murmanskin alue”
- Finnish: “Му́рманская о́бласть”
- French: “Mourmansk”
- French: “oblast de Mourmansk”
- French: “Oblast de Mourmansk”
- French: “région de Mourmansk”
- Galician: “Óblast de Múrmansk”
- Georgian: “მურმანსკის ოლქი”
- German: “Murmansk”
- German: “Oblast Murmansk”
- Greek: “Όμπλαστ του Μούρμανσκ”
- Gujarati: “મર્માન્સ્ક ઓબ્લાસ્ટ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Murmansk-chû”
- Hebrew: “מורמנסק”
- Hebrew: “מחוז מורמנסק”
- Hindi: “मुरमंस्क ओब्लास्ट”
- Hindi: “मुर्मन्स्क ओब्लास्ट”
- Hindi: “मुर्मान्स्क ओब्लास्ट”
- Hindi: “मूरमान्स्क ओब्लास्त”
- Hungarian: “Murmanszk Oblast”
- Hungarian: “Murmanszki terület”
- Icelandic: “Múrmansk-fylki”
- Icelandic: “Múrmanskfylki”
- Ido: “Provinco Murmansk”
- Inari Sami: “Murmansk kuávlu”
- Indonesian: “Oblast Murmansk”
- Irish: “Cúige Mhurmansk”
- Italian: “oblast‘ di Murmansk”
- Italian: “Oblast’ di Murmansk”
- Japanese: “ムルマンスク州”
- Kabardian: “Мурманск област”
- Kalmyk: “Мурмана төгәлң”
- Kannada: “ಮರ್ಮನ್ಸ್ಕ್ ಒಬ್ಲಾಸ್ಟ್”
- Karelian: “Murmanskin aloveh”
- Komi: “Мурманск обласьт”
- Korean: “무르만스카야 오블라스티”
- Korean: “무르만스크주”
- Ladin: “Oblast de Murmansk”
- Latin: “Regio Murmanica”
- Latvian: “Murmanskas apgabals”
- Lezghian: “Мурманск вилаят”
- Lithuanian: “Murmansko sritis”
- Livvi: “Murmanskan aloveh”
- Lombard: “Oblast de Murmansk”
- Macedonian: “Мурманска област”
- Malay: “Wilayah Murmansk”
- Maori: “Murmansk Oblast”
- Maori: “Murmansk Opaha”
- Marathi: “मुर्मान्स्क ओब्लास्त”
- Mazanderani: “مورمانسک اوبلاست”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Murmansk Ciŭ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Murmanskaya Chiu”
- Mingrelian: “მურმანსკიშ ოლქი”
- Moksha: “Мурманонь аймак”
- Mongolian: “Мурманск муж”
- Northern Frisian: “Murmansk (Prowins)”
- Northern Frisian: “Murmansk”
- Northern Sami: “Murmansk oblast”
- Northern Sami: “Murmánska”
- Northern Sami: “Murmánskka guovlu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Murmansk oblast”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Murmansk”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Murmansk oblast”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Murmansk”
- Norwegian: “Murmansk oblast”
- Norwegian: “Murmanskaja oblast”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Óblast de Mormansk”
- Ossetian: “Мурмæнсчы облæст”
- Ossetian: “Мурмансчы облæст”
- Pampanga: “Murmansk Oblast”
- Panjabi: “ਮੂਰਮੰਸੑਕ ਓਬਲਾਸਟ”
- Persian: “استان مورمانسک”
- Persian: “اوبلاست مورمانسک”
- Polish: “Obwód murmański”
- Portuguese: “Murmansk”
- Portuguese: “Murmansque”
- Portuguese: “Oblast de Murmansk”
- Pushto: “مورمانسک ولايت”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Murmansk”
- Russian: “Кольский край”
- Russian: “Мурмания”
- Russian: “Мурманская область”
- Russian: “Мурманская Область”
- Russian: “Му́рманская о́бласть”
- Russian: “Мурманский край”
- Russian: “Мурманский регион”
- Russian: “Мурманчания”
- Russian: “Мурманщина”
- Russian: “Подмурманье”
- Scots: “Murmansk Oblast”
- Serbian: “Мурманска област”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Murmanska oblast”
- Sinhala: “මර්මන්ස්ක් ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovak: “Murmanská oblasť”
- Slovenian: “Murmanska oblast”
- South Azerbaijani: “مورمانسک اوبلاستی”
- Spanish: “Oblast de Murmansk”
- Spanish: “Óblast de Múrmansk”
- Swahili: “Murmansk Oblast”
- Swedish: “Murmansk oblast”
- Swedish: “Murmansk”
- Tagalog: “Murmansk Oblast”
- Tagalog: “Oblast ng Murmansk”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Мурманск”
- Talysh: “Murmanski vilojət”
- Tamil: “முர்மான்சுக் ஒப்லாஸ்து”
- Tamil: “மூர்மன்சுக் மாகாணம்”
- Tamil: “மூர்மன்ஸ்க் ஒப்ளாஸ்ட்”
- Tatar: “Мурманск өлкәсе”
- Telugu: “ముర్మాన్స్క్ ఓబ్లాస్ట్”
- Thai: “แคว้นมูร์มันสค์”
- Turkish: “Murmansk Oblastı”
- Udmurt: “Мурманск улос”
- Ukrainian: “Мурманська область”
- Upper Sorbian: “Oblasć Murmansk”
- Urdu: “مورمانسک اوبلاست”
- Uzbek: “Murmansk viloyati”
- Veps: “Murmanskan agj”
- Vietnamese: “Murmansk”
- Vietnamese: “Vùng Murmansk”
- Vlaams: “Oblast Moermansk”
- Waray (Philippines): “Murmansk Oblast”
- Welsh: “Oblast Murmansk”
- Western Frisian: “Moermansk (oblast)”
- Western Frisian: “Moermansk”
- Western Panjabi: “مرمانسک”
- Wu Chinese: “摩尔曼斯克州”
- Yakut: “Мурманскай уобалас”
- Yue Chinese: “莫曼斯克”
- Yue Chinese: “莫曼斯克州”
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