Russia
NW Russia
Arkhangelsk Oblast

Novaya Zemlya

Novaya Zemlya is a large 83,000-km2 island in , in extreme northern . Its landmass is narrowly separated by the Matochkin Strait into two vast pieces of land, called simply Severny and Yuzhny islands.
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  • Type: Island
  • Description: Arctic archipelago in northern Russia
  • Also known as: “New Zemlya”, “Nova Semlia”, “Nova Zembla”, “Nova Zemlia”, and “Novasemlia”

Novaya Zemlya

Latitude
74° north
Longitude
56° east
Elevation
441 metres (1,447 feet)
Open location code
CH6R2222+22
Geo­Names ID
519406
Wiki­data ID
Q80413
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Novaya Zemlya” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Nowaja Zemlja”
  • Arabic: “نوفايا زيمليا”
  • Armenian: “Նոր Երկիր”
  • Asturian: “Nueva Zembla”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yeni Torpaq”
  • Bashkir: “Яңы Ер”
  • Basque: “Zembla Berri”
  • Basque: “Zembla Berria”
  • Belarusian: “Новая Зямля”
  • Bosnian: “Nova zemlja”
  • Bosnian: “Nova Zemlja”
  • Bosnian: “Novaja Zemlja”
  • Breton: “Novaya Zemlya”
  • Bulgarian: “Нова земя”
  • Catalan: “Nova Terra”
  • Catalan: “Nova Zembla”
  • Catalan: “Nova Zemlia”
  • Catalan: “Nóvaia Zemlià”
  • Cebuano: “Novaja Zemlja”
  • Cebuano: “Novaya Zemlya”
  • Cebuano: “Но́вая Земля́”
  • Central Bikol: “Novaya Zemlya”
  • Chechen: “Керла Латта”
  • Chinese: “新地岛”
  • Chinese: “新地島”
  • Chinese: “新地島群島”
  • Chuvash: “Çĕнĕ Çĕр”
  • Croatian: “Nova Zemlja”
  • Croatian: “Novaja zemlja”
  • Croatian: “Novaja Zemlja”
  • Czech: “Nová země”
  • Czech: “Novaja Zemlja”
  • Danish: “Nova Zembla”
  • Danish: “Novaja Semlja”
  • Danish: “Novaja Zemlja”
  • Danish: “Novaya Zemlya”
  • Dutch: “Nova Zembla”
  • Dutch: “Novaja Zemlja”
  • Dutch: “Novaya Zemlya”
  • Eastern Mari: “У Мланде”
  • Esperanto: “Nova Zemlo”
  • Esperanto: “Novaja Zemla”
  • Estonian: “Novaja Zemlja”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Novaya Zemlya”
  • Finnish: “Novaja Zemlaja”
  • Finnish: “Novaja Zemlja”
  • Finnish: “Novaya Zemlya”
  • French: “Malye Karmakuly”
  • French: “Nouvelle Zemble”
  • French: “Nouvelle-Zemble”
  • Galician: “Nova Cembla”
  • Galician: “Nova Zembla - Нoвая Земля”
  • Galician: “Nova Zembla”
  • Galician: “Novaya Zemlya”
  • Georgian: “ახალი მიწა”
  • German: “Nowaja Semla”
  • German: “Nowaja Semlja”
  • Greek: “Νόβαγια Ζεμλιά”
  • Greek: “Νόβαγια Ζέμλια”
  • Hebrew: “נובאיה זמליה”
  • Hebrew: “נוביה זמליה”
  • Hindi: “नोवाया ज़ेमल्या”
  • Hungarian: “Novaja Zemlja”
  • Hungarian: “Új-föld”
  • Icelandic: “Novaja Semlja”
  • Icelandic: “Novaja Zemlja”
  • Ido: “Novaya Zemlya”
  • Indonesian: “Kepulauan Zemlya Baru”
  • Indonesian: “Novaya Zemlya”
  • Irish: “Novaya Zemlya”
  • Italian: “Novaja Zemlja”
  • Italian: “Novaya Zemlya”
  • Italian: “Nuova Terra”
  • Italian: “Nuova Zembla”
  • Italian: “Nuova Zemlja”
  • Japanese: “ノーヴァヤ・ゼムリャー”
  • Japanese: “ノヴァヤ・ゼムリャ”
  • Japanese: “ノヴァヤゼムリャ”
  • Japanese: “ノヴァヤゼムリャ列島”
  • Japanese: “ノヴァヤゼムリャ島”
  • Japanese: “ノバヤゼムリャ”
  • Japanese: “ノバヤゼムリヤ”
  • Japanese: “ノバヤゼムリャ島”
  • Japanese: “新地島”
  • Javanese: “Novaya Zemlya”
  • Kazakh: “Жаңа Жер аралы”
  • Kazakh: “Жаңа Жер”
  • Kirghiz: “Жаңы-Жер”
  • Korean: “노바야제믈랴 섬”
  • Korean: “노바야제믈랴 제도”
  • Korean: “노바야제믈랴”
  • Korean: “노바야젬랴 섬”
  • Latin: “Nova Semlia”
  • Latin: “Nova Terra”
  • Latin: “Nova Zembla”
  • Latin: “Nova Zemla”
  • Latin: “Nova Zemlia”
  • Latin: “Novasemlia”
  • Latin: “Terra Nova”
  • Latvian: “Novaja Zemļa”
  • Latvian: “Novaya Zemlya”
  • Latvian: “Новая Земля”
  • Lithuanian: “Naujoji Žemė”
  • Macedonian: “Нова Земја”
  • Malay: “Novaya Zemlya”
  • Marathi: “नोवाया झेम्ल्या”
  • Mirandese: “Nuoba Tierra”
  • Mongolian: “Шинэ Газар”
  • Northern Frisian: “Nowaja Semlja”
  • Northern Sami: “Novaja Zemlja”
  • Northern Sami: “Ođđaeana”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Novaja Semlja”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Novaja Zemlja”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Novaja Semlja”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Novaja Zemlja”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Novaya Zemlya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Новая Земля”
  • Norwegian: “Gåselandet”
  • Norwegian: “Novaja Semlja”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nòva Zembla”
  • Ossetian: “Ног Зæхх”
  • Persian: “نوا زمبلا”
  • Persian: “نوایا زملیا”
  • Polish: “Nowa Ziemia”
  • Portuguese: “Nova Zembla”
  • Portuguese: “Nova Zemble”
  • Portuguese: “Novaia Zemlia”
  • Portuguese: “Novaja Zemlja”
  • Portuguese: “Novaya Zemlya”
  • Pushto: “نوایا زملیا ټاپوګان”
  • Romanian: “Insula Novaia Zemlea”
  • Romanian: “Insulele Novaia Zemlea”
  • Romanian: “Insulele Novaia Zemlia”
  • Romanian: “Novaia Zemlea”
  • Romanian: “Novaia Zemlia”
  • Russian: “Матка (архипелаг)”
  • Russian: “Муниципальное образование Новая Земля Архангельской области”
  • Russian: “Новая Земля (полигон)”
  • Russian: “Новая Земля (ядерный полигон)”
  • Russian: “Новая Земля”
  • Russian: “Но́вая Земля́”
  • Scots: “Novaya Zemlya”
  • Serbian: “Зембла”
  • Serbian: “Нова земља”
  • Serbian: “Нова Земља”
  • Serbian: “Новаја Земља”
  • Serbian: “Новая Земля”
  • Serbian: “Но́вая Земля”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Novaja Zemlja”
  • Slovak: “Nová Zem”
  • Slovenian: “Nova dežela”
  • Slovenian: “Nova Zemlja”
  • Spanish: “Archipielago de Nueva Zembla”
  • Spanish: “Archipiélago de Nueva Zembla”
  • Spanish: “Archipielago Nueva Zembla”
  • Spanish: “Archipiélago Nueva Zembla”
  • Spanish: “Nova Zembla”
  • Spanish: “Novaya Zemlia”
  • Spanish: “Novaya Zemliá”
  • Spanish: “Nóvaya Zemlia”
  • Spanish: “Nóvaya Zemliá”
  • Spanish: “Novaya Zemlya”
  • Spanish: “Novaya Zemlyá”
  • Spanish: “Nóvaya Zemlya”
  • Spanish: “Nóvaya Zemlyá”
  • Spanish: “Nueva Zembla”
  • Spanish: “Nueva Zemlya”
  • Swahili: “Novaya Zemlya”
  • Swedish: “Novaja Zemlja”
  • Swedish: “Novaja-Zemlja”
  • Swedish: “Savva Losjkin”
  • Tajik: “Замини Нав (галаҷазира)”
  • Tajik: “Замини Нав”
  • Tatar: “Яңа Җир”
  • Thai: “โนวายาเซมลยา”
  • Turkish: “Novaya Zemlya”
  • Uighur: “يېڭى يەر”
  • Ukrainian: “Нова Земля”
  • Urdu: “نووا زیمبلا”
  • Urdu: “نووایا زیملیا”
  • Uzbek: “Novaya zemlya”
  • Uzbek: “Novaya Zemlya”
  • Vietnamese: “Novaya Zemlya”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Novaya Zemlya”
  • Welsh: “Novaya Zemlya”
  • Western Frisian: “Nova Sembla”
  • Western Frisian: “Nova Zembla”
  • Western Panjabi: “نووایا زیملیا”
  • Wu Chinese: “新地岛”
  • Yakut: “Саҥа Сир”
  • Yue Chinese: “新地島”
  • “Novaâ Zemlâ”
  • “Novai͡a Zemli͡a”
  • “Novaya Zemlya”

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