Okha
Okha is a city and important oil hub on the northern tip of Sakhalin island in the Russian Far East. Ancestors of the 29,000 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
- Description: human settlement in Okhinsky District, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia
- Categories: subdivisions of Russia and city/town
- Location: Sakhalin, Russian Far East, Russia, Europe
- Postal code: 694490
Latitude 53.5891° or 53° 35' 20.8" north | Longitude 142.9498° or 142° 56' 59.1" east |
Population 20,700 | IATA airport code OHH |
Elevation 20 metres (66 feet) | OpenStreetMap ID node 360791081 |
GeoNames ID 2122614 |
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Okha, Rusya
- Arabic: أوخا
- Azerbaijani: Oxa
- Bashkir: Оха
- Belarusian: Аха
- Bulgarian: Оха
- Catalan: Okhà
- Cebuano: Okha
- Chechen: Оха
- Chinese: Okha
- Chinese: 奥哈
- Czech: Ocha
- Dutch: Okha
- English: Okha, Russia
- Esperanto: Oĥa
- Estonian: Ohha
- Finnish: Oha
- French: Okha
- German: Ocha
- Greek: Οχά
- Hebrew: אוחה
- Italian: Ocha
- Japanese: オハ
- Kirghiz: Оха
- Korean: 오하
- Min Nan Chinese: Okha (Lō͘-se-a)
- Norwegian: Okha
- Norwegian Bokmål: Okha
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Okha
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Okha i Russland
- Persian: اوخا، روسیه
- Polish: Ocha
- Portuguese: Oxa
- Romanian: Oha
- Russian: Оха
- Serbian: Оха
- South Azerbaijani: اوکها
- Spanish: Oja
- Spanish: Ojá
- Swedish: Ocha
- Swedish: Okha
- Tagalog: Okha, Rusya
- Tagalog: Okha
- 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
- Okhe
Other Places Named Okha
In the Area
Localities
- Yuzhnaya Okha4½ km south
- KayganLocality, 5 km east
- RodnikiLocality, 7 km southeast
- NovostroykaLocality, 8 km south
- EkhabiVillage, 9 km south
- LaguriLocality, 12 km west
Landmarks
- Zaliv KetuBay, 3½ km northeast
- OkhaPort, 5 km southeast
- Ozero SladkoyeLake, 6 km north
- Zaliv UrktLagoon, 6 km southeast
- Ozero GoreloyeLake, 7 km north
- Ozero Medvezh’yeLake, 7 km southwest
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