Okha
Okha is a city and important oil hub on the northern tip of Sakhalin island in the Russian Far East. Ancestors of the 23,000 people living here named the town Okha, with their usual pragmatism: it derived from an indigenous word for bad water, to which the town owes its existence.
- Type: Town with 20,700 residents
- Description: human settlement in Okhinsky District, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia
- Also known as: “Okha, Russia” and “Okhe”
- Address: Охинский городской округ, 694490
- Postal code: 694490
Places of Interest
Highlights include Воинам-охинцам, павшим в годы Великой Отечественной войны and Памятник В.И. Ленину.
Воинам-охинцам, павшим в годы Великой Отечественной войны
Memorial
Okha
- Categories: administrative divisions of Russia, city or town, and locality
- Location: Sakhalin Oblast, Russian Far East, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
53.5892° or 53° 35′ 21″ north
Longitude
142.9497° or 142° 56′ 59″ east
Population
20,700
Elevation
25 metres (82 feet)
IATA airport code
OHH
Open location code
9R54HWQX+MV
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Okha” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أوخا”
- Azerbaijani: “Oxa”
- Bashkir: “Оха”
- Basque: “Okha”
- Belarusian: “Аха”
- Bulgarian: “Оха”
- Catalan: “Okhà”
- Cebuano: “Okha”
- Chechen: “Оха”
- Chinese: “Okha”
- Chinese: “奥哈”
- Crimean Tatar: “Oha”
- Czech: “Ocha”
- Dutch: “Okha”
- Esperanto: “Oĥa”
- Estonian: “Ohha”
- Finnish: “Oha”
- French: “Okha”
- German: “Ocha”
- Greek: “Οχά”
- Hebrew: “אוחה”
- Hungarian: “Oha”
- Indonesian: “Okha, Rusia”
- Indonesian: “Okha”
- Italian: “Ocha”
- Japanese: “オハ”
- Kirghiz: “Оха”
- Korean: “오하”
- Latvian: “Oha”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Okha (Lō͘-se-a)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Okha”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Okha i Russland”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Okha”
- Norwegian: “Okha”
- Ossetian: “Оха”
- Persian: “اوخا، روسیه”
- Persian: “اوخا”
- Polish: “Ocha”
- Portuguese: “Oxa”
- Romanian: “Oha”
- Russian: “Оха”
- Rusyn: “Оха”
- Serbian: “Оха”
- South Azerbaijani: “اوکها”
- Spanish: “Oja”
- Spanish: “Ojá”
- Swedish: “Ocha”
- Swedish: “Okha”
- Tagalog: “Okha, Rusya”
- Tagalog: “Okha”
- Talysh: “Oxa”
- Tatar: “Оха”
- Turkish: “Oha, Sahalin”
- Turkish: “Oha”
- Ukrainian: “Оха”
- Upper Sorbian: “Ocha”
- Urdu: “اوخا، روس”
- Veps: “Oh (lidn)”
- Veps: “Oh”
- Vietnamese: “Okha”
- Waray (Philippines): “Okha, Rusya”
- Waray (Philippines): “Okha”
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