Salekhard

Salekhard is a city in , and is the only city in the world located on the Arctic Circle. It is the administrative center of Yamalia, and was the first permanent Russian settlement in the region, founded following the conquest of the Khanate of Siberia.
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  • City with about 51,200 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 20 metres (50 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code SLY
  • …is also known as “Obdorsr”
  • …was formerly known as “Обдорск”
  • …dates from 1595
  • Description: city in the north of Russia
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Salekhard

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Latitude
66.5299° or 66° 31′ 48″ north
Longitude
66.6146° or 66° 36′ 53″ east
UN/LOCODE
RU SLH and RU SLY
Open location code
9JR8GJH7+WV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 176957217
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1493197
Wiki­data ID
Q6494

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Salekhard” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Salechard”
  • Amharic: “ሳለካርድ”
  • Arabic: “سالخارد”
  • Armenian: “Սալեխարդ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Salekhard”
  • Azerbaijani: “Salexard”
  • Bashkir: “Салехард”
  • Basque: “Salekhard”
  • Batak Toba: “Salekhard”
  • Belarusian: “Абдорск”
  • Belarusian: “Салехард”
  • Bengali: “সালেখার্ড”
  • Bulgarian: “Салехард”
  • Catalan: “Salekhard”
  • Cebuano: “Salekhard”
  • Chechen: “Салехард”
  • Chinese: “萨列哈尔德”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Salehard”
  • Croatian: “Salehard”
  • Czech: “Salechard”
  • Dutch: “Salechard”
  • Eastern Mari: “Салехард”
  • Erzya: “Салехард ош”
  • Esperanto: “Saleĥardo”
  • Estonian: “Salehard”
  • Finnish: “Salehard”
  • French: “Salekhard”
  • German: “Salechard”
  • Greek: “Σαλεχάρντ”
  • Hausa: “Salekhard”
  • Hebrew: “סלחרד”
  • Hindi: “साले खार्ड”
  • Hungarian: “Szalehard”
  • Indonesian: “Salekhard”
  • Irish: “Salekhard”
  • Italian: “Salechard”
  • Japanese: “サレハルド”
  • Javanese: “Salekhard”
  • Kazakh: “Салехард”
  • Kirghiz: “Салехард”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Обдор”
  • Komi: “Обдор”
  • Korean: “살레하르트”
  • Ladin: “Salehard”
  • Latin: “Salechardum”
  • Latvian: “Saleharda”
  • Lithuanian: “Salechardas”
  • Malay: “Salekhard”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Salekhard”
  • Mingrelian: “სალეხარდი”
  • Moksha: “Салехард”
  • Mongolian: “Салехард”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Salekhard”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Salekhard”
  • Norwegian: “Salekhard”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Salekhard”
  • Oromo: “Salekhard”
  • Ossetian: “Салехард”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਾਲੀਖਾਰਡ”
  • Persian: “سالخارد”
  • Polish: “Salechard”
  • Portuguese: “Salekhard”
  • Pushto: “سالیخارڈ”
  • Pushto: “سالېخارد”
  • Pushto: “سلخارد”
  • Pushto: “سليخارد”
  • Russian: “Обдорск”
  • Russian: “Салехард”
  • Scots: “Salekhard”
  • Serbian: “Салехард”
  • Slovak: “Salechard”
  • Slovenian: “Salehard”
  • Somali: “Salekhard”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سالخارد”
  • Spanish: “Salejard”
  • Swahili: “Salehard”
  • Swahili: “Salekhard”
  • Swedish: “Salechard”
  • Tagalog: “Salekhard”
  • Tajik: “Салехард”
  • Talysh: “Salexard”
  • Tatar: “Салехард”
  • Thai: “ซาเลคาร์ด”
  • Thai: “ซาเลฮาร์ด”
  • Turkish: “Salehard”
  • Turkish: “Salekhard”
  • Udmurt: “Салехард”
  • Ukrainian: “Салехард”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Salechard”
  • Urdu: “سالخارد”
  • Urdu: “سالیخارڈ”
  • Uzbek: “Salehard”
  • Uzbek: “Salekhard”
  • Veps: “Salehard”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Salekhard”
  • Wu Chinese: “萨列哈尔德”
  • Yue Chinese: “薩列哈爾德”

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