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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky.
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
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Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, also spelled Uzno-Sakhalinsk and previously known in Japanese as Toyohara, is the largest city and capital of Sakhalin Oblast, in the Russian Far East, with a population of around 173,000.
Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky
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Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky is a port town on the northwest coast of Sakhalin, on the shores of the Tatar Strait.
Korsakov
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Korsakov is a port town of 36,652 people in Sakhalin Oblast, Russia. It is at the southern tip of the island on the shores of Anniva Bay, some 42 km south of the island's primary city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.
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. Ancestors of the 23,000 people living here named the town Okha, with their usual pragmatism: it derived from an indigenous word for bad water, to which the town owes its existence.
Dolinsk
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Dolinsk is a town and the administrative center of Dolinsky District of Sakhalin Oblast, Russia, located in the southeast of the Sakhalin Island in the valley of the Naiba River…
Kholmsk
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Kholmsk is a port town in Sakhalin Oblast facing the Tartar Strait, with a population of some 35,000 people. An utterly drab city, the only reason to visit here is the ferry connection to the mainland.
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. The name is a canny reference to the booming oil business here as it's derived from the indigenous Nivkh word noghl-vo which means 'smelling-village'.
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”, “Sakhalin I.”, “Sakhalin Is.”, and “Sakhalin Island”
- Historically known as: “Saghalian Island”
- Category: executive branch
- Location: Sakhalin Oblast, Russian Far East, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Satellite Map
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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: “Sakhalin”
- Chinese: “库页岛”
- Chinese: “庫頁島”
- Chinese: “桦太岛”
- Chinese: “萨哈林岛（库页岛）”
- Chinese: “萨哈林岛”
- Chinese: “薩哈林”
- Chinese: “薩哈林島（庫頁島）”
- Chinese: “薩哈林島”
- Chuvash: “Сахалин”
- Croatian: “Sahalin”
- Czech: “Sachalin”
- Danish: “Sakhalin”
- Dutch: “Sachalin”
- Dutch: “Sakhalin”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سخالين”
- Esperanto: “Saĥaleno”
- Estonian: “Sahhalin”
- Fiji Hindi: “Sakhalin”
- Finnish: “Sahalin”
- French: “Sakhaline”
- Galician: “Sakhalin”
- Georgian: “სახალინი”
- German: “Sachalin”
- German: “Sakhalin”
- 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: “サハリン”
- Japanese: “サハリン島”
- Japanese: “樺太”
- Japanese: “樺太島”
- Kazakh: “Сахалин”
- Khmer: “កោះសាខាលីន”
- Korean: “가라후토”
- Korean: “가라후토섬”
- Korean: “사할리얀”
- Korean: “사할린 섬”
- Korean: “사할린”
- Korean: “사할린섬”
- Korean: “싸할린”
- Korean: “쿠예”
- 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: “ᠰᠠᡥᠠᠯᡳᠶᠠᠨ”
- 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: “Карафуто”
- 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: “Sajalin”
- Spanish: “Sajalín”
- Swahili: “Sahalin”
- Swahili: “Sakhalin”
- Swedish: “Sachalin”
- Tagalog: “Pulo ng Sakhalin”
- Talysh: “Saxalin”
- Tamil: “சக்கலின்”
- Tatar: “Сахалин”
- Thai: “เกาะซาฮาลิน”
- Tosk Albanian: “Sachalin”
- Turkish: “Sahalin”
- Uighur: “ساخالىن”
- Ukrainian: “Карафуто”
- 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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