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.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky.
Korsakov
Korsakov is a port town of 36,652 people in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Okha and Dolinsk.
Okha
Okha is a city and important oil hub on the northern tip of Sakhalin island in the Russian Far East.
Nogliki
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Nogliki is a city in on the island of Sakhalin in Russian Far East, roughly 2/3 up the island.
Sakhalin
- Island with about 673,000 residents
- …was formerly known as “Saghalian Island”
- 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”“Sakhalin I.”“Sakhalin Is.”“Sakhalin Island”
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- Location
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Sakhalin” goes by many names.
SakhalinAchinese
SachalinAfrikaans
سخالينArabic
ՍախալինArmenian
Islla de SakhalinAsturian
Saxalin adasıAzerbaijani
СахалинBashkir
SakhalinBasque
Востраў СахалінBelarusian
СахалінBelarusian
সাখালিন দ্বীপBengali
SahalinBosnian
Sac’halinBreton
СахалинBulgarian
SakhalínCatalan
SakhalinCebuano
Sakhalin (pulo sa Rusya)Cebuano
ساخالینCentral Kurdish
СахалинChechen
库页岛Chinese
庫頁島Chinese
桦太岛Chinese
萨哈林岛Chinese
萨哈林岛（库页岛）Chinese
薩哈林Chinese
薩哈林島Chinese
薩哈林島（庫頁島）Chinese
СахалинChuvash
SahalinCroatian
SachalinCzech
SakhalinDanish
SachalinDutch
SakhalinDutch
سخالينEgyptian Arabic
SaĥalenoEsperanto
SahhalinEstonian
SakhalinFiji Hindi
SakhalinFijian
SahalinFinnish
SakhalinGalician
სახალინიGeorgian
ΣαχαλίνηGreek
סחליןHebrew
साख़ालिनHindi
SzahalinHungarian
SakalínIcelandic
SakhalínIcelandic
Insulo SahalinIdo
SakalinIdo
SakhalinIndonesian
SakhalinInterlingua
SacailínIrish
SachalinItalian
サハリンJapanese
サハリン島Japanese
樺太Japanese
樺太島Japanese
СахалинKazakh
កោះសាខាលីនKhmer
가라후토Korean
가라후토섬Korean
사할리얀Korean
사할린Korean
사할린 섬Korean
싸할린Korean
쿠예Korean
ສັກກະລິນLao
SachalinaLatin
SahalīnaLatvian
庫頁島Literary Chinese
SachalinasLithuanian
СахалинMacedonian
SakalinaMalagasy
SakhalinMalagasy
SakhalinMalay
സഖാലിൻ ദ്വീപ്Malayalam
ᡩᡝᡵᡤᡳ ᠮᡝᡩᡝᡵᡳ ᡨᡠᠨManchu
साखालिनMarathi
ساخالینMazanderani
SakhalinMin Nan Chinese
СахалинMongolian
साखालीनNepali
SachalinNorthern Frisian
Sachalin (Eilun)Northern Frisian
SakhalinNorwegian
SakhalinNorwegian Bokmål
SakhalinNorwegian Nynorsk
СахалинOssetian
ਸਾਖਾਲਿਨPanjabi
ਸਾਖਾਲਿਨ ਟਾਪੂPanjabi
ساخالینPersian
SachalinPolish
Insula SahalinRomanian
КарафутоRussian
Остров СахалинRussian
СахалинRussian
ᱥᱟᱠᱷᱟᱞᱤᱱSantali
SakhalinScottish Gaelic
SahalinSerbian
СахалинSerbian
SahalinSerbo-Croatian
SachalinSlovak
SahalinSlovenian
SahalinSwahili
SakhalinSwahili
SachalinSwedish
SachalinSwiss German
Pulo ng SakhalinTagalog
SaxalinTalysh
சக்கலின்Tamil
СахалинTatar
เกาะซาฮาลินThai
SahalinTurkish
ساخالىنUighur
КарафутоUkrainian
СахалінUkrainian
SachalinUpper Sorbian
سخالن جزیرہUrdu
SaxalinUzbek
SakhalinVietnamese
SakhalienVlaams
SakhalinWaray (Philippines)
SachalinWelsh
SachalinWestern Frisian
سخالینWestern Panjabi
庫頁島Wu Chinese
桦太岛Wu Chinese
СахалинYakut
庫頁島Yue Chinese
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