Sakhalin
Sakhalin, formerly known as Karafuto to the Japanese, is a large and very sparsely populated island which was the center of a long power struggle between Russia and Japan for control of its large oil and gas resources.
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Photo: Btibbets, Public domain.Sakhalin
- Type: Island with 673,000 residents
- Description: large Russian island in the North Pacific Ocean
- Also known as: “Kabafuto”, “Karafuto”, “Kuye”, “Ostrov Sakhalin”, “Saghalien”, “Saghalien I.”, “Saghalien Is.”, “Saghalien Island”, “Saghalin”, “Sajalin”, “Sakhalin I.”, “Sakhalin Is.”, “Sakhalin Island”, “Карафуто”, “가라후토”, “가라후토섬”, “사할리얀”, “사할린”, “쿠예”, “サハリン”, “サハリン島”, “樺太島”, “萨哈林岛”, “萨哈林岛（库页岛）”, “薩哈林島”, and “薩哈林島（庫頁島）”
- Historically known as: “Saghalian Island”
- Category: executive branch
- Location: Sakhalin Oblast, Russian Far East, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude of center
51° north
Longitude of center
143° east
Population
673,000
Elevation
320 metres (1,050 feet)
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Sakhalin” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Sakhalin”
- Afrikaans: “Sachalin”
- Arabic: “سخالين”
- Armenian: “Սախալին”
- Asturian: “Islla de Sakhalin”
- Azerbaijani: “Saxalin adası”
- Bashkir: “Сахалин”
- Basque: “Sakhalin”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Сахалін”
- Belarusian: “Сахалін”
- Bengali: “সাখালিন দ্বীপ”
- Bosnian: “Sahalin”
- Breton: “Sac’halin”
- Breton: “Sachalin”
- Bulgarian: “Сахалин”
- Catalan: “Sakhalín”
- Cebuano: “Sakhalin (pulo sa Rusya)”
- Cebuano: “Sakhalin”
- Central Kurdish: “ساخالین”
- Chechen: “Сахалин”
- Chinese: “库页岛”
- Chinese: “庫頁島”
- Chinese: “薩哈林”
- Chuvash: “Сахалин”
- Croatian: “Sahalin”
- Czech: “Sachalin”
- Danish: “Sakhalin”
- Dutch: “Sachalin”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سخالين”
- Esperanto: “Saĥaleno”
- Estonian: “Sahhalin”
- Fiji Hindi: “Sakhalin”
- Fijian: “Sakhalin”
- Finnish: “Sahalin”
- French: “Sakhaline”
- Galician: “Sakhalin”
- Georgian: “სახალინი”
- German: “Sachalin”
- Greek: “Σαχαλίνη”
- Hebrew: “סחלין”
- Hindi: “साख़ालिन”
- Hungarian: “Szahalin”
- Icelandic: “Sakalín”
- Icelandic: “Sakhalín”
- Ido: “Insulo Sahalin”
- Ido: “Sakalin”
- Indonesian: “Sakhalin”
- Interlingua: “Sakhalin”
- Irish: “Sacailín”
- Italian: “Sachalin”
- Japanese: “樺太”
- Kazakh: “Сахалин”
- Khmer: “កោះសាខាលីន”
- Korean: “사할린 섬”
- Korean: “사할린섬”
- Korean: “싸할린”
- Lao: “ສັກກະລິນ”
- Latin: “Sachalina”
- Latvian: “Sahalīna”
- Literary Chinese: “庫頁島”
- Lithuanian: “Sachalinas”
- Macedonian: “Сахалин”
- Malagasy: “Sakalina”
- Malagasy: “Sakhalin”
- Malay: “Sakhalin”
- Malayalam: “സഖാലിൻ ദ്വീപ്”
- Manchu: “ᡩᡝᡵᡤᡳ ᠮᡝᡩᡝᡵᡳ ᡨᡠᠨ”
- Marathi: “साखालिन”
- Mazanderani: “ساخالین”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sakhalin”
- Mongolian: “Сахалин”
- Nepali: “साखालीन”
- Northern Frisian: “Sachalin (Eilun)”
- Northern Frisian: “Sachalin”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sakhalin”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sakhalin”
- Norwegian: “Sakhalin”
- Ossetian: “Сахалин”
- Panjabi: “ਸਖ਼ਾਲਿਨ”
- Panjabi: “ਸਾਖਾਲਿਨ ਟਾਪੂ”
- Panjabi: “ਸਾਖਾਲਿਨ”
- Persian: “ساخالین”
- Polish: “Sachalin”
- Portuguese: “Sacalina”
- Romanian: “Insula Sahalin”
- Russian: “Остров Сахалин”
- Russian: “Сахалин”
- Santali: “ᱥᱟᱠᱷᱟᱞᱤᱱ”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Sakhalin”
- Serbian: “Sahalin”
- Serbian: “Сахалин”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sahalin”
- Slovak: “Sachalin”
- Slovenian: “Sahalin”
- Spanish: “Isla de Sajalín”
- Spanish: “Sajalín”
- Swahili: “Sahalin”
- Swahili: “Sakhalin”
- Swedish: “Sachalin”
- Swiss German: “Sachalin”
- Tagalog: “Pulo ng Sakhalin”
- Talysh: “Saxalin”
- Tamil: “சக்கலின்”
- Tatar: “Сахалин”
- Thai: “เกาะซาฮาลิน”
- Turkish: “Sahalin”
- Uighur: “ساخالىن”
- Ukrainian: “Сахалін”
- Upper Sorbian: “Sachalin”
- Urdu: “سخالن جزیرہ”
- Uzbek: “Saxalin”
- Vietnamese: “Sakhalin”
- Vlaams: “Sakhalien”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sakhalin”
- Welsh: “Sachalin”
- Western Frisian: “Sachalin”
- Western Panjabi: “سخالین”
- Wu Chinese: “庫頁島”
- Wu Chinese: “桦太岛”
- Yakut: “Сахалин”
- Yue Chinese: “庫頁島”
- “ma Sakalin”
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