Nizhny Novgorod

Nizhny Novgorod, colloquially shortened to Nizhny, is 's fifth largest city, ranking after , , and .
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  • Type: City with 1,200,000 residents
  • Description: capital of the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast and the Volga Federal District in central Russia
  • Also known as: “Gerkiy”, “Nether Novgorod”, “Nijni-Novgorod”, “Nijnii Novgorod”, “NiNo”, “Nishni-Nowgorod”, “Nishnii Nowgorod”, “Nizhniy Novgorod”, “Nizhny”, and “город Нижний Новгород”
  • Historically known as: “Gor’kiy”, “Gorkey”, “Gorki”, “Gorkii”, and “Gorky”
  • Address: городской округ Нижний Новгород
  • Neighbors:
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Nizhny Novgorod and Cathedral of the Transfiguration.

Church
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The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral is a Russian Orthodox cathedral church located in the Kanavinsky city district of Nizhny Novgorod. The cathedral is located on the former territory of the Nizhny Novgorod Fair.

Scenic viewpoint
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is a scenic viewpoint.

Theater building
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is a theater building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bor and Мещерское озеро.

Town
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is a town in , , located on the left bank of the Volga River, across from Nizhny Novgorod. The two cities are connected by bridges built in 1965 and 2017, and by ferry service.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Village
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Nizhny Novgorod

Latitude
56.3265° or 56° 19′ 35″ north
Longitude
44.0051° or 44° 0′ 19″ east
Population
1,200,000
Elevation
141 metres (463 feet)
Inception
1221
IATA airport code
GOJ
United Nations Location Codes
RU NVR and RU GOJ
Open location code
9H8682G4+H3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27505889
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
520555
Wiki­data ID
Q891
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Nizhny Novgorod” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Nizjni Nowgorod”
  • Albanian: “Nizhny Novgorod”
  • Amharic: “ኒዝህኒ ኖቭጎሮድ”
  • Amharic: “ኒዥኒ ኖቭጎሮድ”
  • Arabic: “نيجني نوفغورود”
  • Armenian: “Նիժնի Նովգորոդ”
  • Asturian: “Nizhni Nóvgorod”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nijni Novqorod”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nizhni Novqorod”
  • Balinese: “Nizhny Novgorod”
  • Bashkir: “Түбәнге Новгород”
  • Basque: “Nizhni Novgorod”
  • Belarusian: “Горкі”
  • Belarusian: “Ніжні Ноўгарад”
  • Bengali: “নিঝনি নোভগরদ”
  • Bengali: “নিঝনি নোভগোরোড”
  • Bosnian: “Nižnji Novgorod”
  • Breton: “Nijniy Novgorod”
  • Bulgarian: “Нижни Новгород”
  • Burmese: “ညီးရှ်နီး နော့ဗ်ဂရတ်မြို့”
  • Burmese: “ညီးရှ်နီး နော့ဗ်ဂေါရတ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Nijni Nóvgorod”
  • Cebuano: “Nizhniy Novgorod”
  • Central Kurdish: “نیژنی نۆڤگۆرۆد”
  • Chechen: “Нижни Новгород”
  • Chinese: “Nizhny Novgorod”
  • Chinese: “下诺夫哥罗德”
  • Chinese: “下諾夫哥羅德”
  • Church Slavic: “Нижьн҄ии Новъ Градъ”
  • Chuvash: “Чулхула”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Aşağı Novgorod”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Nijniy Novgorod”
  • Croatian: “Nižni Novgorod”
  • Croatian: “Nižnji Novgorod”
  • Czech: “Gorkij”
  • Czech: “Nižnij Novgorod”
  • Czech: “Nižný Novgorod”
  • Danish: “Nisjnij Novgorod”
  • Danish: “Nizjnij Novgorod”
  • Dutch: “Gorki”
  • Dutch: “Nizjni Novgorod”
  • Eastern Mari: “Угарман”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نيجنى نوفجورود”
  • Erzya: “Алоош”
  • Esperanto: “Niĵnij Novgorod”
  • Esperanto: “NiNo”
  • Estonian: “Nižni Novgorod”
  • Finnish: “Nižni Novgorod”
  • French: “Gorki”
  • French: “Nijni Novgorod”
  • Galician: “Nizhnii Novgorod”
  • Georgian: “ნიჟნი-ნოვგოროდი”
  • German: “Gorki”
  • German: “Gorkij”
  • German: “N. Nowgorod”
  • German: “Nischgorod”
  • German: “Nischni Nowgorod”
  • German: “Nischni-Nowgorod”
  • German: “Nischnij Nowgorod”
  • German: “Nishni Nowgorod”
  • German: “Nishnij Nowgorod”
  • German: “Nizhni Novgorod”
  • German: “Nizhny Novgorod”
  • German: “Nižnij Novgorod”
  • Greek: “Γκόρκι”
  • Greek: “Νίζνι Νόβγκοροντ”
  • Gujarati: “નિઝ્ની નોવગોરોદ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Nizhny Novgorod”
  • Hausa: “Nizhniy Novgorod”
  • Hausa: “Nizhny Novgorod”
  • Hebrew: “ניז’ני נובגורוד”
  • Hindi: “निज़नी नोवगोरोड”
  • Hindi: “निज्नी नॊव्गोरोद”
  • Hindi: “निज़्हनी नोव्गोरोद”
  • Hindi: “निज़्हनी नोव्ग्रद”
  • Hungarian: “Gorkij”
  • Hungarian: “Nyizsnij Novgorod”
  • Hungarian: “Nyizsnyij Novgorod”
  • Hungarian: “Нижний Новгород”
  • Icelandic: “Nízhníj Novgorod”
  • Ido: “Nijni Novgorod”
  • Ido: “Nizhny Novgorod”
  • Indonesian: “Nizhniy Novgorod”
  • Indonesian: “Nizhny Novgorod”
  • Irish: “Nizhny Novgorod”
  • Italian: “Gor’kij”
  • Italian: “Niznij Novgorod”
  • Italian: “Nižnij Novgorod”
  • Japanese: “ニージニ・ノヴゴロド”
  • Japanese: “ニージニ・ノブゴロド”
  • Japanese: “ニージニー・ノヴゴロド”
  • Japanese: “ニージニー・ノブゴロド”
  • Japanese: “ニージニー”
  • Japanese: “ニージニーノヴゴロド”
  • Japanese: “ニージニイ・ノヴゴロド”
  • Japanese: “ニージニイ・ノブゴロド”
  • Japanese: “ニージュニイ・ノーヴゴロト”
  • Japanese: “ニジェゴロド”
  • Japanese: “ニジニ・ノヴゴロド”
  • Japanese: “ニジニ・ノブゴロド”
  • Japanese: “ニジニー・ノヴゴロド”
  • Japanese: “ニジニー・ノブゴロド”
  • Japanese: “ニジニーノヴゴロド”
  • Japanese: “ニジニーノブゴロド”
  • Japanese: “ニジニノブゴロド”
  • Japanese: “ニジュニー・ノヴゴロト”
  • Javanese: “Nizhniy Novgorod”
  • Kalaallisut: “Nizjnij Novgorod”
  • Kannada: “ಗಾರ್ಕಿ”
  • Kannada: “ನಿಜ್ನೀ ನೊವ್ಗೋರೋದ್”
  • Kannada: “ನಿಜ್ಹ್ನಿ ನೋವಾಗೋರೋಡ್”
  • Kazakh: “Нижний Новгород”
  • Kazakh: “Төменгі Новгород”
  • Kirghiz: “Нижний Новгород”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Макарья”
  • Komi: “Макаръя”
  • Korean: “니즈니노브고로드”
  • Kotava: “Nijni Novgorod”
  • Kurdish: “Nîjnî Novgorod”
  • Ladin: “Nijni Novgorod”
  • Latin: “Novogardia Inferior”
  • Latvian: “Ņižņijnovgoroda”
  • Lezghian: “Агъа Новгород”
  • Limburgan: “Nizjni Novgorod”
  • Lithuanian: “Žemutinis Naugardas”
  • Low German: “Nischni Nowgorod”
  • Macedonian: “Нижни Новгород”
  • Malay: “Nizhniy Novgorod”
  • Malay: “Nizhny Novgorod”
  • Maltese: “Nizhny Novgorod”
  • Marathi: “निज्नी नॉवगोरोद”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Nizhny Novgorod”
  • Mingrelian: “ნიჟნი-ნოვგოროდი”
  • Moksha: “Ала ош”
  • Mongolian: “Доод Новгород”
  • Nepali: “निझ्नी नोभ्गोरोड”
  • Northern Frisian: “Nischni Nowgorod (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Nischni Nowgorod”
  • Northern Sami: “Nižni Novgorod”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nizjnij Novgorod”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Nizjnij Novgorod”
  • Norwegian: “Nizjnij Novgorod”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nijni Nóvgorod”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nizhni Nòvgorod”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nizhniy Novgorod”
  • Oromo: “Nizhniy Novgorod”
  • Ossetian: “Дæллаг Новгород”
  • Panjabi: “ਨਿਝਨੀ ਨੋਵਗੋਰੋਡ”
  • Persian: “نیژنی نووگورد”
  • Persian: “نیژنی نووگورود”
  • Polish: “NiNo”
  • Polish: “Niżny Nowogród”
  • Portuguese: “Nijni Novgorod”
  • Portuguese: “Níjni Novgorod”
  • Pushto: “نزہنی نووگورڈ”
  • Pushto: “نېژني نوګورود”
  • Quechua: “Nizhniy Novgorod”
  • Romanian: “Nijni Novgorod”
  • Russia Buriat: “Доодо Новгород”
  • Russian: “Горький” (historical)
  • Russian: “Карман России”
  • Russian: “Н. Новгород”
  • Russian: “Нижний Новгород”
  • Russian: “Нижний”
  • Russian: “НиНо”
  • Russian: “Новгород Низовской земли”
  • Russian: “Новград Нижний”
  • Russian: “Столица Поволжья”
  • Russian: “Чулхула”
  • Russian: “Эн-Новгород”
  • Rusyn: “Нижнїй Новгород”
  • Scots: “Nizhny Novgorod”
  • Serbian: “Нижњи Новгород”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nižnji Novgorod”
  • Sicilian: “Nižnij Novgorod”
  • Silesian: “Niżnij Nowgorod”
  • Silesian: “Ńiżńij Nowgorod”
  • Sinhala: “නිෂ්නි නොව්ගෝරෝඩ්”
  • Slovak: “Nižný Novgorod”
  • Slovenian: “Nižni Novgorod”
  • Somali: “Nizhniy Novgorod”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نیژنی نووقورود”
  • Southern Altai: “Алтыгы Новгород”
  • Spanish: “Gorki”
  • Spanish: “Nizhni Novgorod”
  • Spanish: “Nizhni Nóvgorod”
  • Swahili: “Nizhniy Novgorod”
  • Swedish: “Gorkij” (historical)
  • Swedish: “Nizjnij Novgorod”
  • Tagalog: “Nizhny Novgorod”
  • Tajik: “Нижний Новгород”
  • Talysh: “Nižnij Novgorod”
  • Tamil: “நிஸ்னி நொவ்கொரோட்”
  • Tamil: “நீசுனி நோவ்கோரத்”
  • Tatar: “Tübӓn Novgorod”
  • Tatar: “Нижгар”
  • Tatar: “Нижний Новгород”
  • Tatar: “Түбән Новгород”
  • Telugu: “నిజ్నీ నొవ్గోరోడ్”
  • Thai: “นิจนีนอฟโกรอด”
  • Tumbuka: “Nizhny Novgorod”
  • Turkish: “Nijni Novgorod”
  • Twi: “Nižnij Novgorod”
  • Udmurt: “Нижний Новгород”
  • Ukrainian: “Нижній Новгород”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Nižnij Nowgorod”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Nižny Nowgorod”
  • Urdu: “نزنی نوگوروڈ”
  • Urdu: “نزہنی نووگورڈ”
  • Urdu: “نیژنی نووگورود”
  • Uzbek: “Nijni Novgorod”
  • Uzbek: “Nijniy Novgorod”
  • Venetian: “Nižnij Novgorod”
  • Veps: “Alauz’lidn”
  • Vietnamese: “Nizhny Novgorod”
  • Vlax Romani: “Nijni Novgorod”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nizhny Novgorod”
  • Welsh: “Nizhniy Novgorod”
  • Western Frisian: “Nizjni Novgorod”
  • Western Frisian: “Nizjny Novgorod”
  • Western Mari: “Угарман”
  • Western Panjabi: “نیژنی نووگورد”
  • Wolof: “Nizhny Novgorod”
  • Wu Chinese: “下诺夫哥罗德”
  • Yakut: “Алын Новгород”
  • Yue Chinese: “下諾夫哥羅德”
  • “ma tomo Nisinokolo”
  • “Nizhniy Novgorod”
  • “Нижний Новгород”

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