Salekhard
Salekhard is a city in Yamalia, 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Vasyatka1, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Vasyatka1, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: City with 49,500 residents
- Description: city in the north of Russia
- Also known as: “Obdorsr”
Photo: Dmottl, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Salekhard
- Categories: city of okrug significance, city or town, and locality
- Location: Yamalia, Urals, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
66.5299° or 66° 31′ 48″ northLongitude
66.6146° or 66° 36′ 53″ eastPopulation
49,500Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)Inception
1595IATA airport code
SLYOpenStreetMap ID
node 176957217OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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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.