Sevastopol

Sevastopol, also known as Sebastopol, is an important and historical port on the Black Sea in . It is also a popular seaside resort and tourist destination, mainly for visitors from the Commonwealth of Independent States countries.
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  • Type: City with 458,000 residents
  • Description: port city in Crimea, disputed between Ukraine and Russia
  • Also known as: “Ahtiara”, “Ahtjara”, “Akhiar”, “Akhtyar”, “Akjara”, “Sebastopol”, “Sebastopole”, “Sebastúpolis”, “Sevastopil”, “Sevastopolʹ”, “Sewastupolis”, “Sewastúpolis”, “Ахтиар”, “Ахтіар”, “Севастопіль”, “세와스토폴리스”, “아캬르”, and “塞瓦斯托波”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Chersonesus Taurica and Vladimir Cathedral.

Archaeological site
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Chersonesus, contracted in medieval Greek to Cherson, was an ancient Greek colony founded approximately 2,500 years ago in the southwestern part of the Crimean Peninsula.

Church
Photo: George Chernilevsky, Public domain.
The Chersonesus Cathedral, officially Saint Vladimir's Cathedral in Chersonesus or Saint Volodymyr's Cathedral in Chersonesus, is a Russian Orthodox cathedral on the site of on the outskirts of Sevastopol, on the disputed territory of the Crimean Peninsula, in .

Church
Photo: A.Savin, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. Vladimir's Cathedral is an Orthodox church in Sevastopol which was built in the aftermath of the Crimean War as a memorial to the heroes of the Siege of Sevastopol.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include North side, Sevastopol and Central hill.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Sevastopol

Latitude
44.6054° or 44° 36′ 20″ north
Longitude
33.5221° or 33° 31′ 20″ east
Population
458,000
Elevation
50 metres (164 feet)
IATA airport code
UKS
United Nations Location Code
UA SVP
Open location code
8GPMJG4C+5R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 251073791
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
694423
Wiki­data ID
Q7525
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Yue Chinese—“Sevastopol” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Севастополь”
  • Afrikaans: “Sewastopol”
  • Albanian: “Sevastopoli”
  • Arabic: “سيفاستوبول”
  • Aragonese: “Sevastopol”
  • Armenian: “Սևաստոպոլ”
  • Asturian: “Sebastopol”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sevastopol”
  • Bashkir: “Аҡъяр”
  • Bashkir: “Севастополь”
  • Basque: “Sebastopol”
  • Belarusian: “Севастопаль”
  • Bengali: “সেভাস্তোপোল”
  • Bhojpuri: “सेवस्टोपोल”
  • Bosnian: “Sevastopolj”
  • Breton: “Sebastopol”
  • Breton: “Sevastopol”
  • Bulgarian: “Севастопол”
  • Burmese: “ဆီပတ်စတိုပိုမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Sebastòpol”
  • Cebuano: “Sevastopol”
  • Central Kurdish: “سیڤاستۆپۆڵ”
  • Chechen: “Севастополь”
  • Chinese: “塞凡堡”
  • Chinese: “塞瓦斯托波尔”
  • Chinese: “塞瓦斯托波爾”
  • Church Slavic: “Сєвастополь”
  • Chuvash: “Севастополь”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Aqjar” (historical)
  • Crimean Tatar: “Aqyar”
  • Croatian: “Sevastopolj”
  • Czech: “Sevastopol”
  • Danish: “Sevastopol”
  • Dutch: “Sebastopol”
  • Eastern Mari: “Севастополь”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سيفاستوبول”
  • Erzya: “Севастополь ош”
  • Esperanto: “Sebastopolo”
  • Esperanto: “Sevastopolo”
  • Estonian: “Sevastopol”
  • Finnish: “Sevastopol”
  • French: “Sébastopol”
  • Galician: “Sebastopol”
  • Georgian: “სევასტოპოლი”
  • German: “Sewastopol”
  • Greek: “Σεβαστούπολη”
  • Gujarati: “સેવાસ્તોપોલ”
  • Hebrew: “סבסטופול”
  • Hindi: “सेवस्तोपोल”
  • Hungarian: “Szevasztopol”
  • Icelandic: “Sevastopol”
  • Icelandic: “Sevastópol”
  • Ido: “Sevastopol”
  • Indonesian: “Sevastopol”
  • Interlingue: “Sevastopol”
  • Irish: “Sevastopol”
  • Italian: “Sebastopoli”
  • Japanese: “セヴァストポリ”
  • Japanese: “セバストポリ”
  • Javanese: “Sevastopol”
  • Kalaallisut: “Sevastopol”
  • Kannada: “ಸೆವಸ್ಟಾಪೋಲ್”
  • Kannada: “ಸೆವಸ್ತೋಪೊಲ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Sevastopol”
  • Kazakh: “Ақиар”
  • Kirghiz: “Севастополь”
  • Komi: “Севастополь”
  • Komi: “Севастопольын”
  • Korean: “세바스토폴”
  • Kotava: “Winkeem ke Ukraina”
  • Kurdish: “Sêvastopol”
  • Ladin: “Sevastopol”
  • Latin: “Sebastopolis”
  • Latvian: “Sevastopole”
  • Lezghian: “Севастополь”
  • Limburgan: “Sebastopol”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Sevastopol”
  • Lithuanian: “Sevastopolis”
  • Lombard: “Sevastopol”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Sewastopol”
  • Luxembourgish: “Sewastopol”
  • Macedonian: “Севастопол”
  • Malagasy: “Sevastopol”
  • Malay: “Sevastopol”
  • Malayalam: “സെവാസ്റ്റോപോൾ”
  • Maltese: “Sevastopol”
  • Marathi: “सेव्हास्तोपोल”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Sevastopol”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sevastopol”
  • Mingrelian: “სევასტოპოლი”
  • Moksha: “Сэвастополь”
  • Mongolian: “Севастополь”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sewastopol”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sevastopol”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sevastopol”
  • Norwegian: “Sevastopol”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sebastòple”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sebastopolis”
  • Ossetian: “Севастополь”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੇਵਾਸਤੋਪੋਲ”
  • Persian: “سواستوپول”
  • Polish: “Sewastopol”
  • Pontic: “Σεβαστούπολη”
  • Portuguese: “Sebastopol”
  • Pushto: “سواستوپول”
  • Romanian: “Sevastopol”
  • Romanian: “Севастопол”
  • Russian: “Севастополь”
  • Rusyn: “Севастополь”
  • Scots: “Sevastopol”
  • Serbian: “Севастопољ”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sevastopolj”
  • Sicilian: “Sebastopoli”
  • Silesian: “Sewastopol”
  • Sindhi: “سيواستوپول”
  • Sinhala: “සේවස්ටෝපොල්”
  • Slovak: “Sevastopoľ”
  • Slovenian: “Sevastopol”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سواستوپول”
  • Spanish: “Sebastopol”
  • Spanish: “Sevastopol”
  • Swahili: “Sevastopol”
  • Swedish: “Sevastopol”
  • Swiss German: “Sewastopol”
  • Tagalog: “Sevastopol”
  • Tajik: “Севастопол”
  • Talysh: “Sevastopol”
  • Tamil: “செவஸ்டோபோல்”
  • Tamil: “செவஸ்தோபோல்”
  • Tatar: “Акъяр”
  • Telugu: “సెవాస్టోపోల్”
  • Thai: “เซวัสโตปอล”
  • Turkish: “Akyar”
  • Turkish: “Sivastopol”
  • Turkmen: “Sewastopol”
  • Udmurt: “Севастополь”
  • Ukrainian: “Севастополь”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Sewastopol”
  • Urdu: “سواستوپول”
  • Uzbek: “Oqyor”
  • Uzbek: “Sevastopol”
  • Venetian: “Sebastopoli”
  • Veps: “Sevastopol‘”
  • Veps: “Sevastopol’”
  • Vietnamese: “Sevastopol”
  • Vlaams: “Sevastopol”
  • Walloon: “Sebastopol”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sevastopol”
  • Welsh: “Sefastopol”
  • Western Frisian: “Sebastopol”
  • Western Panjabi: “سواستوپول”
  • Wu Chinese: “塞瓦斯托波尔”
  • Yakut: “Севастополь”
  • Yue Chinese: “塞凡堡”
  • “Севастополь”
  • “Севастопољ”
  • “सेवस्टोपोल”

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