Orenburg

Orenburg is the capital of . Every citizen will point you the sign at the bridge across the Ural river, supposedly landmarking the geographical border between Europe and Asia.
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  • Type: City with 537,000 residents
  • Description: city in the south of Russia
  • Also known as: Chkalov” and “Tschkalow
  • Address: городской округ Оренбург

Places of Interest

Highlights include Orenburg State Medical University.

University

Orenburg

Latitude
51.7671° or 51° 46′ 2″ north
Longitude
55.0979° or 55° 5′ 52″ east
Population
537,000
Elevation
124 metres (407 feet)
Inception
1743
IATA airport code
REN
United Nations Location Code
RU REN
Open location code
9H3QQ38X+R4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27505509
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
515003
Wiki­data ID
Q5337
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Orenburg” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: Orenburg
  • Albanian: Orenburg
  • Arabic: أورنبرغ
  • Arabic: أورينبورغ
  • Armenian: Օրենբուրգ
  • Asturian: Oremburgu
  • Asturian: Orenburg
  • Asturian: Orenburgo
  • Azerbaijani: Orenburq
  • Bashkir: Ырымбур
  • Basque: Orenburg
  • Belarusian: Арэнбург
  • Belarusian: Чкалаў
  • Bengali: ওরেনবার্গ
  • Breton: Orenbourg
  • Bulgarian: Оренбург
  • Catalan: Orenburg
  • Cebuano: Orenburg
  • Chechen: Оренбург
  • Chinese: Orenburg
  • Chinese: 奥伦堡
  • Chinese: 奧倫堡
  • Chuvash: Ăренпур
  • Crimean Tatar: Orenburg
  • Croatian: Orenburg
  • Czech: Orenburg
  • Danish: Orenburg
  • Dimli (individual language): Orenburg
  • Dutch: Orenburg
  • Eastern Mari: Оренбург
  • Eastern Mari: Орынбор
  • Eastern Mari: Чкалов (ола)
  • Erzya: Оренбург ош
  • Esperanto: Orenburgo
  • Estonian: Orenburg
  • Finnish: Oranienbaum
  • Finnish: Orenburg
  • French: Orenbourg
  • French: Orenburg
  • Georgian: ორენბურგი
  • German: Orenburg
  • Greek: Ορενμπούργκ
  • Gujarati: ઓરેનબર્ગ
  • Hebrew: אורנבורג
  • Hindi: ओरेनबुर्ग
  • Hungarian: Orenburg
  • Icelandic: Orenburg
  • Icelandic: Orenbúrg
  • Indonesian: Orenburg
  • Irish: Orenburg
  • Italian: Orenburg
  • Japanese: オレンブルク
  • Kannada: ಒರೆಂಬುರ್ಗ್
  • Kara-Kalpak: Orenburg
  • Kazakh: Орынбор
  • Kirghiz: Оренбург
  • Kirghiz: Орунбор
  • Komering: Orenburg
  • Komi: Оренбург
  • Korean: 오렌부르크
  • Ladin: Orenburg
  • Latin: Orenburgum
  • Latin: Oropolis
  • Latvian: Orenburga
  • Lithuanian: Orenburgas
  • Lombard: Orenburg
  • Macedo-Romanian: Orenburg
  • Macedonian: Оренбург
  • Malay: Orenburg
  • Maltese: Orenburg
  • Marathi: ओरेनबर्ग
  • Min Nan Chinese: Orenburg
  • Mingrelian: ორენბურგი
  • Moksha: Оренбург
  • Mongolian: Оренбург
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Orenburg
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Orenburg
  • Norwegian: Orenburg
  • Occitan (post 1500): Orenburg
  • Ossetian: Оренбург
  • Persian: اورنبورگ
  • Polish: Orenburg
  • Portuguese: Oremburgo
  • Pushto: اورینبرګ
  • Romanian: Orenburg
  • Russia Buriat: Оренбург
  • Russian: Оренбург
  • Russian: Оренбу́рг
  • Russian: Чкалов” (historical)
  • Scots: Orenburg
  • Serbian: Оренбург
  • Silesian: Orenburg
  • Sinhala: ඔරෙන්බර්ග්
  • Slovak: Orenburg
  • Slovenian: Orenburg
  • South Azerbaijani: اورنبورق
  • Spanish: Oremburgo
  • Swahili: Orenburg
  • Swedish: Orenburg
  • Tagalog: Orenburg
  • Tajik: Оренбург
  • Talysh: Orenburg
  • Talysh: Orenburq
  • Tamil: ஓரன்பர்க் நகரம்
  • Tamil: ஓரென்பர்க்
  • Tatar: Ырынбур
  • Telugu: ఒరెంబుర్గ్
  • Thai: โอเรนบุร์ก
  • Tumbuka: Orenburg
  • Turkish: Orenburg
  • Udmurt: Оренбург
  • Ukrainian: Оренбург
  • Upper Sorbian: Orenburg
  • Urdu: اورنبرگ
  • Uzbek: Orenburg
  • Venetian: Orenburg
  • Veps: Orenburg
  • Vietnamese: Orenburg
  • Waray (Philippines): Orenburg
  • Welsh: Orenburg
  • Western Frisian: Orenburg
  • Western Panjabi: اورنبرگ
  • Wu Chinese: 奥伦堡
  • Yue Chinese: 奧倫堡

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