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Norilsk

Norilsk is a large city in . Because of its strategic importance for nickel ore processing, Norilsk is a closed city and special permission is needed for travel, which is generally only granted for guided tours.
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  • Type: City with 177,000 residents
  • Description: city in Russia
  • Also known as: “Noril’sk” and “Norilskoe”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Nord Kamal Mosque and Norilsk Polar Drama Theater ‘Vl. Mayakovsky’.

Mosque
The is the largest in the city of Norilsk, . It is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the most northernly-situated mosque in the world.

Theater building
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a theater building.

Museum
Photo: Ричард Шелтон, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a museum.

Norilsk

Latitude
69.3444° or 69° 20′ 40″ north
Longitude
88.2096° or 88° 12′ 35″ east
Population
177,000
Elevation
76 metres (249 feet)
Inception
1935
United Nations Location Code
RU NSK
Open location code
9MXC86V5+QR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 191780610
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1497337
Wiki­data ID
Q175517
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Norilsk” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Norilsk”
  • Albanian: “Norilsku”
  • Arabic: “نوريلسك”
  • Armenian: “Նորիլսկ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Norilsk”
  • Bashkir: “Норильск”
  • Basque: “Norilsk”
  • Belarusian: “Нарыльск”
  • Bengali: “নরলিস্ক”
  • Bulgarian: “Норилск”
  • Catalan: “Norilsk”
  • Cebuano: “Norilsk”
  • Chechen: “Норильск”
  • Chinese: “Norilsk”
  • Chinese: “诺里尔斯克”
  • Chinese: “諾里爾斯”
  • Chinese: “諾里爾斯克”
  • Chuvash: “Норильск”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Norilsk”
  • Croatian: “Noriljsk”
  • Czech: “Norilsk”
  • Danish: “Norilsk”
  • Dutch: “Norilsk”
  • Eastern Mari: “Норильск”
  • Esperanto: “Norilsk”
  • Esperanto: “Norilsko”
  • Estonian: “Norilsk”
  • Finnish: “Norilsk”
  • French: “Norilsk”
  • German: “Norilsk”
  • Greek: “Νορίλσκ”
  • Greek: “Νόριλσκ”
  • Gujarati: “નોરિલસ્ક”
  • Hebrew: “נורילסק”
  • Hindi: “नोरिल्स्क”
  • Hungarian: “Norilszk”
  • Inari Sami: “Norilsk”
  • Indonesian: “Norilsk”
  • Italian: “Noril’sk”
  • Japanese: “ノリリスク”
  • Kannada: “ನಾರ್ಲಿಸ್ಕ್”
  • Korean: “노릴스크”
  • Ladin: “Norilsk”
  • Latin: “Norilium”
  • Latvian: “Noriļska”
  • Lithuanian: “Norilskas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Norilsk”
  • Macedonian: “Нориљск”
  • Malay: “Norilsk”
  • Marathi: “नॉरिल्स्क”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Norilsk”
  • Mongolian: “Норильск”
  • Nepali: “नोरिल्स्क”
  • Northern Frisian: “Norilsk”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Norilsk”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Norilsk”
  • Norwegian: “Norilsk”
  • Ossetian: “Норильск”
  • Persian: “نوریلسک”
  • Polish: “Norylsk”
  • Portuguese: “Norilsk”
  • Romanian: “Norilsk”
  • Russian: “Норильск”
  • Russian: “Нори́льск”
  • Scots: “Norilsk”
  • Serbian: “Нориљск”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Noriljsk”
  • Silesian: “Norilsk”
  • Sinhala: “නොර්ලිස්ක්”
  • Slovak: “Noriľsk”
  • Slovenian: “Norilsk”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نوریلسک”
  • Spanish: “Norilsk”
  • Swedish: “Norilsk”
  • Tagalog: “Norilsk”
  • Tajik: “Норилск”
  • Talysh: “Norilsk”
  • Tamil: “நோரில்ஸ்க்”
  • Tatar: “Норилск”
  • Tatar: “Норильск”
  • Telugu: “నోరీల్స్క్”
  • Thai: “โนริลสค์”
  • Turkish: “Norilsk”
  • Ukrainian: “Норильськ”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Norilsk”
  • Urdu: “نورلسک”
  • Uzbek: “Norilsk”
  • Veps: “Noril’sk”
  • Vietnamese: “Norilsk”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Norilsk”
  • Western Panjabi: “نورلسک”
  • Wu Chinese: “诺里尔斯克”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Norilsk”. Photo: Андрей Романенко, CC BY-SA 3.0.