Central Ukraine
Poltava Oblast
Poltava Raion

Poltava

Poltava is a city in . Poltava is called a cultural capital because of its colourful history and many famous Ukrainians who were born in Poltava.
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  • Type: City with 298,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Poltava Oblast in central Ukraine
  • Also known as: “Ltava” and “Pultowa”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Poltava Art Museum and Gogol Theater of musical drama.

Museum
Photo: Batsv, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a public art gallery in Poltava, which contains many works of native and foreign art and a rich ethnographic collection.

Theater building
Photo: Posterrr, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a theater building.

Museum
Photo: Vlad2003, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yurivka and Kobyshchany.

Suburb
Photo: Batsv, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a suburb.

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

Suburb
Photo: Batsv, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a suburb.

Poltava

Latitude
49.5897° or 49° 35′ 23″ north
Longitude
34.5508° or 34° 33′ 3″ east
Population
298,000
Elevation
156 metres (512 feet)
IATA airport code
PLV
United Nations Location Code
UA PLV
Open location code
8GXPHHQ2+V8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27121360
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
696643
Wiki­data ID
Q156747
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Poltava” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Poltawa”
  • Albanian: “Poltava”
  • Arabic: “بولتافا”
  • Armenian: “Պոլտավա”
  • Asturian: “Poltava”
  • Azerbaijani: “Poltava”
  • Bashkir: “Полтава”
  • Basque: “Poltava”
  • Belarusian: “Палтава”
  • Bengali: “পোল্টাভা”
  • Breton: “Poltava”
  • Bulgarian: “Полтава”
  • Burmese: “ပိုလ်တာဗာ”
  • Catalan: “Poltava”
  • Cebuano: “Poltava”
  • Chechen: “Полтава”
  • Chinese: “波塔瓦”
  • Chinese: “波尔塔瓦”
  • Chinese: “波爾塔瓦”
  • Chuvash: “Полтава”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Poltava”
  • Croatian: “Poltava”
  • Czech: “Poltava”
  • Danish: “Poltava”
  • Dutch: “Poltava”
  • Dutch: “Poltawa”
  • Eastern Mari: “Полтава”
  • Eastern Mari: “Полтаве”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بولتافا”
  • Erzya: “Полтава ош”
  • Esperanto: “Poltava”
  • Esperanto: “Poltavo”
  • Esperanto: “Полтава”
  • Estonian: “Poltaava”
  • Estonian: “Poltava”
  • Faroese: “Poltava”
  • Finnish: “Poltava”
  • Finnish: “Pultava”
  • French: “Ltava”
  • French: “Poltava”
  • Georgian: “პოლტავა”
  • German: “Ltava”
  • German: “Poltava”
  • German: “Poltawa”
  • Greek: “Πολτάβα”
  • Gujarati: “પોલ્ટવા”
  • Hebrew: “פולטאבה”
  • Hebrew: “פולטאווה”
  • Hebrew: “פולטבה”
  • Hebrew: “פולטווה”
  • Hindi: “पोलतावा”
  • Hungarian: “Poltava”
  • Icelandic: “Poltava”
  • Indonesian: “Poltava”
  • Italian: “Poltava”
  • Japanese: “ポルターヴァ”
  • Japanese: “ポルタヴァ”
  • Japanese: “ポルタバ”
  • Japanese: “ポルタワ”
  • Kannada: “ಪೋಲ್ಟಾವ”
  • Kannada: “ಪೋಲ್ತಾವ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Poltava”
  • Kazakh: “Полтава”
  • Khmer: “ប៉ូតាវ៉ា”
  • Kirghiz: “Полтава”
  • Komi: “Полтава”
  • Korean: “폴타바”
  • Kotava: “Poltava”
  • Kurdish: “Poltava”
  • Ladin: “Poltava”
  • Latin: “Poltava”
  • Latin: “ໂປຕາວາ”
  • Latvian: “Poltava”
  • Lithuanian: “Poltava”
  • Lombard: “Poltava”
  • Luxembourgish: “Poltawa”
  • Macedonian: “Полтава”
  • Malay: “Poltava”
  • Malayalam: “പോൾട്ടാവ”
  • Marathi: “पोल्टवा”
  • Mingrelian: “პოლტავა”
  • Moksha: “Полтава”
  • Mongolian: “Полтав”
  • Mongolian: “Полтава”
  • Northern Frisian: “Poltawa (Steed)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Poltawa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Poltava”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Połtawa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Poltava”
  • Norwegian: “Poltava”
  • Ossetian: “Полтавæ”
  • Ossetian: “Полтава”
  • Persian: “پولتاوا”
  • Polish: “Połtawa”
  • Portuguese: “Poltava”
  • Romanian: “Poltava”
  • Russian: “Лтава”
  • Russian: “Полтава”
  • Rusyn: “Полтава”
  • Scots: “Poltava”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Poltava”
  • Serbian: “Poltava”
  • Serbian: “Полтава”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Poltava”
  • Silesian: “Połtawa”
  • Sinhala: “පෝල්ටාවා”
  • Slovak: “Poltava”
  • Slovenian: “Poltava”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پولتاوا”
  • Spanish: “Poltava”
  • Spanish: “Pultowa”
  • Swahili: “Poltava”
  • Swedish: “Poltava”
  • Swedish: “Poltawa”
  • Swedish: “Połtawa”
  • Swedish: “Pultava”
  • Swedish: “Pultawa”
  • Swiss German: “Poltawa”
  • Talysh: “Poltava”
  • Tamil: “போல்டாவா”
  • Tamil: “போல்தாவா”
  • Tatar: “Полтава”
  • Telugu: “పోల్టవా”
  • Thai: “ปอลตาวา”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Poltawa”
  • Turkish: “Poltava”
  • Udmurt: “Полтава”
  • Ukrainian: “Ltava” (historical)
  • Ukrainian: “Лтава” (historical)
  • Ukrainian: “Полтава”
  • Ukrainian: “Польтова”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Poltawa”
  • Urdu: “پولتاوا”
  • Uzbek: “Poltava”
  • Vietnamese: “Poltava”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Poltava”
  • Welsh: “Poltava”
  • Western Armenian: “Փոլթաւա”
  • Western Frisian: “Poltava”
  • Western Panjabi: “پولتاوا”
  • Wu Chinese: “波尔塔瓦”
  • Yakut: “Полтава”
  • Yiddish: “פאלטאווע”
  • Yue Chinese: “波爾塔瓦”

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