Southern Ukraine
Odesa Oblast
Odesa Raion

Odesa

Odesa, is a seaport on the Black Sea coast of . The city is home to over a million people. Its chief attraction to visitors is the graceful old town, laid out on a grid pattern in the early 19th century, with its many churches, galleries and museums.
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  • Type: City with 1,010,000 residents
  • Description: city in southwestern Ukraine, administrative center of Odesa Oblast and Odesa Raion
  • Also known as: “Odesa-mama”, “Odesa, Ukraine”, and “Odessa”
  • Historically known as: “Khadjibey”
  • Postal code: 65001
Photo: Ykvach, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Odesa National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet and Potemkin Stairs.

Theater building
Photo: Alexostrov, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Odesa National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre is the oldest theatre in Odesa, . The Theatre and the are the most famous edifices in Odesa.

Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Oleksandr Malyon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The , Potemkin Steps, or officially, the Primorsky Stairs, are a giant stairway in Odesa, . They are considered a formal entrance into the city from the direction of the sea and are the best known symbol of Odesa.

Community center
Photo: Борис Мавлютов, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The and Arabian Cultural Center are located in Odesa, . The cultural center and mosque were opened in June 2001.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Moldavanka and Peresyp.

Suburb
Photo: Ykvach, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a historical part of Odesa in the of southern , located jointly in Khadzhybeiskyi and Prymorskyi urban districts. Before 1820 it was a settlement just outside Odesa, which later engulfed it.

Suburb
Photo: Ykvach, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a suburb.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Odesa

Latitude
46.477° or 46° 28′ 37″ north
Longitude
30.74° or 30° 44′ 24″ east
Population
1,010,000
Elevation
50 metres (164 feet)
IATA airport code
ODS
United Nations Location Code
UA ODS
Open location code
8GRGFPGR+R2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26150437
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
698740
Wiki­data ID
Q1874
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Odesa” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Odesa”
  • Afrikaans: “Odessa”
  • Albanian: “Odesa”
  • Amharic: “ኦዴሣ”
  • Arabic: “أوديسا”
  • Aragonese: “Odessa”
  • Armenian: “Օդեսա”
  • Arpitan: “Odèssa”
  • Asturian: “Odesa”
  • Asturian: “Odessa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Hacıbəy”
  • Azerbaijani: “Odessa”
  • Bashkir: “Одесса”
  • Basque: “Odesa”
  • Belarusian: “Адэса”
  • Bengali: “ওডেসা”
  • Betawi: “Odesa”
  • Betawi: “Odésa”
  • Betawi: “Odessa”
  • Bosnian: “Odesa”
  • Breton: “Odesa”
  • Bulgarian: “Одеса”
  • Burmese: “အိုဒက်ဆာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Odessa”
  • Cebuano: “Odessa”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئۆدێسا”
  • Chechen: “Одесса”
  • Chinese: “奧德薩”
  • Chinese: “奧迪沙”
  • Chinese: “敖得薩”
  • Chinese: “敖德萨”
  • Chinese: “敖德薩”
  • Chuvash: “Одесса”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Ades”
  • Croatian: “Odesa”
  • Croatian: “Odessa”
  • Czech: “Oděsa”
  • Danish: “Odesa”
  • Danish: “Odessa”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Odessa”
  • Dutch: “Odesa”
  • Dutch: “Odessa”
  • Eastern Mari: “Одеса”
  • Eastern Mari: “Одесса”
  • Eastern Mari: “Одессе”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوديسا”
  • Erzya: “Одесса ош”
  • Esperanto: “Odesa”
  • Esperanto: “Odeso”
  • Estonian: “Odessa”
  • Faroese: “Odessa”
  • Finnish: “Odesa”
  • Finnish: “Odessa”
  • French: “Odesa”
  • French: “Odessa”
  • Gagauz: “Odesa”
  • Galician: “Odesa”
  • Georgian: “ოდესა”
  • German: “Odesa”
  • German: “Odessa”
  • Greek: “Οδησσός”
  • Gujarati: “ઓડેસ્સા”
  • Hausa: “Odessa”
  • Hawaiian: “Odesa”
  • Hebrew: “אודיסא” (historical)
  • Hebrew: “אודסה”
  • Hindi: “ओडेसा”
  • Hindi: “ओदॆस”
  • Hungarian: “Odessza”
  • Hungarian: “Odesza”
  • Icelandic: “Odesa”
  • Icelandic: “Ódesa”
  • Icelandic: “Ódessa”
  • Ido: “Odesa”
  • Ido: “Odessa”
  • Inari Sami: “Odessa”
  • Indonesian: “Odesa”
  • Indonesian: “Odessa”
  • Interlingue: “Odessa”
  • Irish: “Odesa”
  • Italian: “Odesa”
  • Italian: “Odessa”
  • Japanese: “オデーサ”
  • Japanese: “オデッサ”
  • Javanese: “Odesa”
  • Javanese: “Odessa”
  • Kalaallisut: “Odesa”
  • Kannada: “ಒಡೆಸ್ಸ”
  • Kannada: “ಒಡೆಸ್ಸಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಓದೆಸ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Odessa”
  • Kazakh: “Odesa”
  • Kazakh: “Odessa”
  • Kazakh: “Одесса”
  • Kirghiz: “Одесса”
  • Komi: “Одесса”
  • Korean: “오데사”
  • Kotava: “Odesa”
  • Kurdish: “Odesa”
  • Kurdish: “Odêsa”
  • Ladin: “Odessa”
  • Lak: “Одесса”
  • Latin: “Odessa”
  • Latin: “Odessus”
  • Latvian: “Odesa”
  • Ligurian: “Odessa”
  • Limburgan: “Odessa”
  • Lithuanian: “Odesa”
  • Lithuanian: “Odessa”
  • Lombard: “Odesa”
  • Lombard: “Udessa”
  • Low German: “Odessa”
  • Luxembourgish: “Odessa”
  • Macedonian: “Одеса”
  • Madurese: “Odesa”
  • Maithili: “ओडेसा”
  • Malagasy: “Odessa”
  • Malay: “Odesa”
  • Malay: “Odessa”
  • Malayalam: “Odesa”
  • Malayalam: “Odessa”
  • Malayalam: “ഒഡെസ”
  • Maltese: “Odesa”
  • Maltese: “Odessa”
  • Manx: “Odesa”
  • Manx: “Odessa”
  • Maori: “Odesa”
  • Marathi: “ओदेसा”
  • Mingrelian: “ოდესა”
  • Moksha: “Одэса”
  • Mongolian: “Одеса”
  • Mongolian: “Одесс”
  • Mongolian: “Одесса”
  • Nepali: “ओदेसा”
  • Northern Frisian: “Odessa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Odesa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Odessa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Odesa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Odessa”
  • Norwegian: “Odesa”
  • Norwegian: “Odessa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Odesa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Odessa”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Odessos”
  • Ossetian: “Одессæ”
  • Persian: “اودسا”
  • Piemontese: “Odëssa”
  • Polish: “Odesa”
  • Polish: “Odessa”
  • Pontic: “Οδησσός”
  • Portuguese: “Odesa”
  • Portuguese: “Odessa”
  • Romanian: “Odesa”
  • Romanian: “Odessa”
  • Romanian: “Одеса”
  • Romanian: “Одесса”
  • Russian: “Жемчужина у моря”
  • Russian: “Качибей”
  • Russian: “Одесса”
  • Russian: “Столица юмора”
  • Russian: “Столица Юмора”
  • Russian: “Хаджибей” (historical)
  • Russian: “Южная Пальмира”
  • Russian: “Южная столица”
  • Rusyn: “Одеса”
  • Sardinian: “Odessa”
  • Scots: “Odesa”
  • Scots: “Odessa”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Odesa”
  • Serbian: “Odesa”
  • Serbian: “Одеса”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Odesa”
  • Sicilian: “Odessa”
  • Silesian: “Uodesa”
  • Silesian: “Uodessa”
  • Sindhi: “اوديسا”
  • Sinhala: “ඔඩෙසා”
  • Slovak: “Odesa”
  • Slovenian: “Odesa”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اودسا”
  • Spanish: “Odesa”
  • Spanish: “Odessa”
  • Swahili: “Odessa”
  • Swedish: “Odessa”
  • Sylheti: “ꠅꠒꠤꠡꠣ ꠘꠉꠞ”
  • Tagalog: “Odessa”
  • Tajik: “Одесса”
  • Talysh: “Odesa”
  • Tamil: “ஒடெசா”
  • Tatar: “Әдис”
  • Tatar: “Одеса”
  • Tatar: “Одесса”
  • Tatar: “Хаҗибәй”
  • Telugu: “ఒడెస్సా”
  • Thai: “ออแดซา”
  • Thai: “โอเดสซา”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Odessa”
  • Turkish: “Odessa”
  • Turkmen: “Odesa”
  • Tuvinian: “Одеса”
  • Udmurt: “Одеса”
  • Udmurt: “Одесса”
  • Ukrainian: “Качубіїв”
  • Ukrainian: “Коцюбіїв” (historical)
  • Ukrainian: “Одеса”
  • Ukrainian: “Перлина Чорного моря”
  • Ukrainian: “Південна Пальміра”
  • Ukrainian: “Південна столиця”
  • Ukrainian: “Хаджибей”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Odesa”
  • Urdu: “اودیسا”
  • Urdu: “اودیسہ”
  • Uzbek: “Odessa”
  • Venetian: “Odessa”
  • Veps: “Odess”
  • Vietnamese: “Odesa”
  • Vietnamese: “Odessa”
  • Vlaams: “Odessa”
  • Vlax Romani: “Odesa”
  • Volapük: “Odässa”
  • Volapük: “Odesa”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Odessa”
  • Welsh: “Odesa”
  • Western Armenian: “Օտեսա”
  • Western Frisian: “Odessa”
  • Western Mari: “Одеса”
  • Western Mari: “Одесса”
  • Western Panjabi: “اودیسا”
  • Wu Chinese: “敖德萨”
  • Yakut: “Одесса”
  • Yiddish: “אדעס”
  • Yiddish: “אדעסא”
  • Yue Chinese: “奧迪沙”
  • Yue Chinese: “敖德薩”
  • “Одеса”

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