Poltava
Poltava is a city in Central Ukraine. Poltava is called a cultural capital because of its colourful history and many famous Ukrainians who were born in Poltava.
- Type: City with 298,000 residents
- Description: capital city of Poltava Oblast in central Ukraine
- Also known as: “Poltaava”, “Pultawa”, “Pultowa”, “פולטאבה”, “פולטאווה”, “פולטווה”, “ポルターヴァ”, “ポルタバ”, and “ポルタワ”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Poltava Art Museum and Gogol Theater of musical drama.
Gogol Theater of musical drama
Theater building
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yurivka and Kobyshchany.
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
UN/LOCODE
UA PLV
Open location code
8GXPHHQ2+V8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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”
- Eastern Mari: “Полтава”
- Eastern Mari: “Полтаве”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بولتافا”
- Erzya: “Полтава ош”
- Esperanto: “Poltavo”
- Estonian: “Poltava”
- Faroese: “Poltava”
- Finnish: “Pultava”
- French: “Poltava”
- Georgian: “პოლტავა”
- German: “Poltawa”
- Greek: “Πολτάβα”
- Gujarati: “પોલ્ટવા”
- Hebrew: “פולטבה”
- Hindi: “पोलतावा”
- Hungarian: “Baltavár” (historical)
- Hungarian: “Poltava”
- Icelandic: “Poltava”
- Indonesian: “Poltava”
- Italian: “Poltava”
- Japanese: “ポルタヴァ”
- 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 Nynorsk: “Poltava”
- Norwegian: “Poltava”
- Ossetian: “Полтавæ”
- Persian: “پولتاوا”
- Polish: “Połtawa”
- Portuguese: “Poltava”
- Romanian: “Poltava”
- 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”
- Swahili: “Poltava”
- Swedish: “Poltava”
- Swiss German: “Poltawa”
- Talysh: “Poltava”
- Tamil: “போல்டாவா”
- Tamil: “போல்தாவா”
- Tatar: “Полтава”
- Telugu: “పోల్టవా”
- Thai: “ปอลตาวา”
- Turkish: “Poltava”
- Udmurt: “Полтава”
- Ukrainian: “Baltavar” (historical)
- Ukrainian: “Ltava” (historical)
- Ukrainian: “Балтавар”
- 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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