Nukus
Nukus is a city in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan. It is the capital of the region However, even by Uzbek standards the town is fairly decrepit and most travellers only stay one night in order to see the Savitsky gallery.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Zartosht, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Fabienkhan, Public domain.
- Type: City with 335,000 residents
- Description: capital of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan
- Also known as: “Karakalpak”, “Nókis”, and “Нөкис”
- Postal code: 230100
Places of Interest
Highlights include State Museum of Art named after I.V. Savitsky and State Museum of History and Culture of Karakalpakstan.
State Museum of Art named after I.V. Savitsky
Museum
The Nukus Museum of Art, or more properly the State Museum of Arts of the Republic of Karakalpakstan named after I.V. Savitsky, is located in Nukus, Karakalpakstan and is home to the world's second largest collection of Russian avant-garde artworks, as well as galleries of antiquities and Karakalpak folk art.
Nukus
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Karakalpakstan, Northern Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan, Central Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.46° or 42° 27′ 36″ northLongitude
59.6177° or 59° 37′ 4″ eastPopulation
335,000Elevation
67 metres (220 feet)IATA airport code
NCUUnited Nations Location Code
UZ NCUOpen location code
8HJXFJ69+23OpenStreetMap ID
node 245552720OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
601294Wikidata ID
Q489898
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Nukus” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Nukus”
- Arabic: “نكوص”
- Arabic: “نوكاث”
- Armenian: “Նուկուս”
- Asturian: “Nukus”
- Azerbaijani: “Nukus”
- Bashkir: “Нөкөс”
- Bashkir: “Нуҡус”
- Basque: “Nukus”
- Belarusian: “Нукус”
- Bengali: “নুকুচ”
- Bosnian: “Nukus”
- Bulgarian: “Нукус”
- Catalan: “Nukus”
- Cebuano: “Nukus”
- Central Bikol: “Nukus”
- Chechen: “Нукус”
- Chinese: “努库斯”
- Chinese: “努庫斯”
- Chuvash: “Нукус”
- Crimean Tatar: “Nüküs”
- Czech: “Nukus”
- Danish: “Nukus”
- Dutch: “Noekoes”
- Dutch: “Nukus”
- Eastern Mari: “Нукус”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نكوص”
- Esperanto: “Nukus”
- Estonian: “Nukus”
- Finnish: “Nukus”
- French: “Noukous”
- French: “Nukus”
- Georgian: “ნუქუსი”
- German: “No’kis”
- German: “Nökis”
- German: “Nukus”
- Greek: “Νοκίς”
- Greek: “Νουκούς”
- Gujarati: “નુકુસ”
- Hebrew: “נוקוס”
- Hindi: “नूकस”
- Hindi: “नूकूस”
- Hungarian: “Noʻkis”
- Indonesian: “Nukus”
- Interlingue: “Nukus”
- Irish: “Nukus”
- Italian: “Nukus”
- Japanese: “ヌクス”
- Kannada: “ನುಕುಸ್”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Nókis qalası”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Nokis”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Nókis”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Нөкис қаласы”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Нөкис”
- Kazakh: “Nükis”
- Kazakh: “Нүкіс”
- Kazakh: “نۇكىس”
- Kikuyu: “Nukus”
- Kirghiz: “Нукус шаары”
- Kirghiz: “Нукус”
- Komering: “Nukus”
- Korean: “누쿠스”
- Latin: “Nucus”
- Latvian: “Nukusa”
- Lithuanian: “Nukusas”
- Malay: “Nukus”
- Marathi: “नुकुस”
- Mazanderani: “نوکیس”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nukus”
- Norwegian: “Nukus”
- Ossetian: “Нукус”
- Panjabi: “ਨੁਕੁਸ”
- Persian: “نوکاث”
- Persian: “نوکوس”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Nukus”
- Polish: “Nukus”
- Portuguese: “Nucus”
- Portuguese: “Nukus”
- Pushto: “نوکوس”
- Romanian: “No’kis”
- Romanian: “Nukus”
- Russian: “Nókis”
- Russian: “Нөкис”
- Russian: “Нукус”
- Scots: “No‘kis”
- Scots: “Nukus”
- Serbian: “Нукус”
- Sinhala: “නුකුස්”
- Slovenian: “Nukus”
- South Azerbaijani: “نؤکیس”
- Spanish: “Nukus”
- Swedish: “No‘kis”
- Swedish: “No’kis”
- Swedish: “Nokis”
- Swedish: “Nökis”
- Swedish: “Nukus”
- Tagalog: “Nukus”
- Tajik: “Nuqus”
- Tajik: “Нӯкис”
- Tajik: “Нукус”
- Tajik: “Нуқус”
- Tamil: “னுகூஸ்”
- Tatar: “Нөкес”
- Telugu: “నూకుస్”
- Thai: “นือกึส”
- Thai: “นูกุส”
- Thai: “เนอกึส”
- Turkish: “No‘kis”
- Turkish: “No’kis”
- Turkish: “Nukus”
- Turkmen: “Nökis”
- Turkmen: “Nöküs”
- Tuvinian: “Нукус”
- Ukrainian: “Нукус”
- Upper Sorbian: “Nukus”
- Urdu: “نوکاث”
- Urdu: “نوکوس”
- Uzbek: “Nukus / Нукус”
- Uzbek: “Nukus”
- Uzbek: “Нукус”
- Venetian: “Nukus”
- Veps: “Nukus”
- Vietnamese: “Nukus”
- Waray (Philippines): “Nukus”
- Western Panjabi: “نوکوس”
- Wu Chinese: “努库斯”
- Yue Chinese: “努庫斯”
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