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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  • Type: City with 49,500 residents
  • Description: city in the north of Russia
  • Also known as: Obdorsr

Salekhard

Latitude
66.5299° or 66° 31′ 48″ north
Longitude
66.6146° or 66° 36′ 53″ east
Population
49,500
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
Inception
1595
IATA airport code
SLY
United Nations Location Codes
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
  • Arabic: سالخارد
  • Armenian: Սալեխարդ
  • Azerbaijani: Salexard
  • Bashkir: Салехард
  • Basque: Salekhard
  • Batak Toba: Salekhard
  • Belarusian: Абдорск
  • Belarusian: Салехард
  • Bulgarian: Салехард
  • Catalan: Salekhard
  • Cebuano: Salekhard
  • Chechen: Салехард
  • Chinese: Salekhard
  • Chinese: 萨列哈尔德
  • Chinese: 薩列哈爾德
  • 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
  • Hebrew: סלחרד
  • Hungarian: Szalehard
  • Indonesian: Salekhard
  • Irish: Salekhard
  • Italian: Salechard
  • Japanese: サレハルド
  • Kirghiz: Салехард
  • Komi-Permyak: Обдор
  • Komi: Обдор
  • Korean: 살레하르트
  • Ladin: Salehard
  • Latin: Salechardum
  • Latvian: Saleharda
  • Lithuanian: Salechardas
  • Min Nan Chinese: Salekhard
  • Mingrelian: სალეხარდი
  • Moksha: Салехард
  • Mongolian: Салехард
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Salekhard
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Salekhard
  • Norwegian: Salekhard
  • Occitan (post 1500): Salekhard
  • Ossetian: Салехард
  • Persian: سالخارد
  • Polish: Salechard
  • Portuguese: Salekhard
  • Pushto: سالېخارد
  • Pushto: سلخارد
  • Pushto: سليخارد
  • Russian: Обдорск
  • Russian: Салехард
  • Scots: Salekhard
  • Serbian: Салехард
  • Slovak: Salechard
  • Slovenian: Salehard
  • South Azerbaijani: سالخارد
  • Spanish: Salejard
  • Swahili: Salehard
  • Swedish: Salechard
  • Tagalog: Salekhard
  • Talysh: Salexard
  • Tatar: Салехард
  • Thai: ซาเลฮาร์ด
  • Turkish: Salehard
  • Udmurt: Салехард
  • Ukrainian: Салехард
  • Upper Sorbian: Salechard
  • Urdu: سالخارد
  • Uzbek: Salehard
  • Veps: Salehard
  • Waray (Philippines): Salekhard
  • Wu Chinese: 萨列哈尔德
  • Yue Chinese: 薩列哈爾德

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Salekhard”. Photo: Vasyatka1, CC BY-SA 4.0.