Ukraine
Crimea
Simferopol Raion

Simferopol

Simferopol, also known as Aqmescit, is the second-largest city on the . The city, along with the rest of Crimea, is internationally recognized as part of , but controlled by .
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  • Type: City with 341,000 residents
  • Description: city in Crimea, Ukraine
  • Also known as: “Akmescit”, “Aqmescit”, and “Symferopil”
  • Postal codes: 295000-295490
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Crimean Tatar Music and Drama Theatre and Scythian Neapolis.

Theater building
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is a theater building.

Photo: Vahe Martirosyan, CC BY-SA 2.0.
, also known as Kermenchik, was an Iranic settlement that existed in the from the end of the 3rd century BC until the second half of the 3rd century AD.

Mosque
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The Kebir Mosque is located in Simferopol, . The Kebir Mosque is a prominent architectural monument in Simferopol and the oldest building in the city.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Old Simferopol and Султанский луг.

Suburb
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, known locally as the Old Town, is an area of the city of Simferopol which until the end of the 18th century served as the centre of the city of Aqmescit.

Suburb
Photo: Дмитрий Ванькевич, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a suburb.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Simferopol

Latitude
44.9521° or 44° 57′ 8″ north
Longitude
34.1025° or 34° 6′ 9″ east
Population
341,000
Elevation
247 metres (810 feet)
IATA airport code
SIP
United Nations Location Code
UA SIP
Open location code
8GPPX422+VX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 252176252
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
693805
Wiki­data ID
Q19566
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Simferopol” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Simferopol”
  • Arabic: “سيمفروبول”
  • Armenian: “Սիմֆերոպոլ”
  • Asturian: “Simferópol”
  • Azerbaijani: “Simferopol”
  • Bashkir: “Аҡмәсжит”
  • Bashkir: “Симферополь”
  • Basque: “Simferopol”
  • Bavarian: “Simferopol”
  • Belarusian: “Сімферопаль”
  • Belarusian: “Сімфэропаль”
  • Belarusian: “Сымфэропаль”
  • Bengali: “সিম্ফেরোপুল”
  • Breton: “Simferopol”
  • Bulgarian: “Симферопол”
  • Catalan: “Ak Mecid”
  • Catalan: “Ak Mejid”
  • Catalan: “Aqmescit”
  • Catalan: “Simferòpill”
  • Catalan: “Simferopol”
  • Catalan: “Simferòpol”
  • Cebuano: “Simferopol”
  • Chechen: “Симферополь”
  • Chinese: “辛菲洛普”
  • Chinese: “辛菲罗波尔 / 辛費羅波爾”
  • Chinese: “辛菲罗波尔”
  • Chinese: “辛菲羅波爾”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Aq Mečit” (historical)
  • Crimean Tatar: “Aqmescit”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Акъмесджит”
  • Croatian: “Simferopol”
  • Croatian: “Simferopolj”
  • Czech: “Simferopol”
  • Danish: “Simferopol”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Simferopol”
  • Dutch: “Simferopol”
  • Eastern Mari: “Симферополь”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سيمفربول”
  • Erzya: “Симферополь ош”
  • Esperanto: “Simferopol”
  • Esperanto: “Simferopolo”
  • Estonian: “Simferoopol”
  • Estonian: “Simferopol”
  • Finnish: “Simferopol”
  • French: “Simferopol”
  • French: “Simféropol”
  • Galician: “Simferópol”
  • Georgian: “სიმფეროპოლი”
  • German: “Simferopol”
  • Gothic: “𐍃𐌹𐌼𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌿𐍀𐍉𐌻”
  • Greek: “Συμφερόπολη”
  • Greek: “Συμφερούπολη”
  • Gujarati: “સિમ્ફેરોપોલ”
  • Hebrew: “סימפרופול”
  • Hindi: “सिमफेरोपोल”
  • Hungarian: “Aqmescit”
  • Hungarian: “Szimferopol”
  • Icelandic: “Símferopol”
  • Indonesian: “Simferopol”
  • Interlingue: “Simferopol”
  • Italian: “Simferopol‘”
  • Italian: “Simferopol”
  • Italian: “Simferopoli”
  • Italian: “Sinferopoli”
  • Japanese: “シムフェローポリ”
  • Japanese: “シムフェロポリ”
  • Japanese: “シンフェローポリ”
  • Japanese: “シンフェロポリ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Simferopol”
  • Kannada: “ಸಿಮ್ಫೆರೊಪೋಲ್”
  • Kazakh: “Ақмешіт (Қырым)”
  • Kazakh: “Ақмешіт”
  • Kirghiz: “Акмечит”
  • Kirghiz: “Симферополь”
  • Komi: “Симферополь”
  • Korean: “심페로폴”
  • Kurdish: “Sîmfêropol”
  • Ladin: “Simferopol”
  • Latin: “Simferopol”
  • Latin: “Sympheropolis”
  • Latvian: “Simferopole”
  • Lithuanian: “Simferopolis”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Simferopol”
  • Luxembourgish: “Simferopol”
  • Macedonian: “Симферопол”
  • Malagasy: “Simferopol”
  • Malay: “Simferopol”
  • Malayalam: “സിംഫെറോപോൾ”
  • Maltese: “Simferopol”
  • Manx: “Simferopol”
  • Marathi: “सिंफेरोपोल”
  • Mingrelian: “სიმფეროპოლი”
  • Moksha: “Симфэрополь”
  • Mongolian: “Симфереполь”
  • Mongolian: “Симферополь”
  • Northern Frisian: “Simferopol”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Aqmescit”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Simferopol”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Simferopol”
  • Norwegian: “Simferopol”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Simferopol”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sinferòpol”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Sympheropolis”
  • Ossetian: “Симферополь”
  • Persian: “سيمفروپول”
  • Persian: “سیمفروپول”
  • Polish: “Symferopol”
  • Pontic: “Συμφερόπολη”
  • Portuguese: “Simferopol”
  • Pushto: “سمفروپول”
  • Romanian: “Simferopol”
  • Romanian: “Симферопол”
  • Russian: “Ак-Мечеть”
  • Russian: “Акмесджит”
  • Russian: “Акмечеть”
  • Russian: “Симферополь”
  • Rusyn: “Сімферополь”
  • Scots: “Simferopol”
  • Serbian: “Симферопољ”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Simferopolj”
  • Sicilian: “Simferopoli”
  • Silesian: “Symferopol”
  • Sinhala: “සිම්ෆරෝපොල්”
  • Slovak: “Simferopol”
  • Slovak: “Simferopoľ”
  • Slovenian: “Simferopol”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سیمفروپول”
  • Spanish: “Simferopol”
  • Spanish: “Simferópol”
  • Swahili: “Simferopol”
  • Swedish: “Akmescid”
  • Swedish: “Aq Mechet”
  • Swedish: “Aqmescit”
  • Swedish: “Kermencik”
  • Swedish: “Kermençik”
  • Swedish: “Simferopol”
  • Talysh: “Simferopol”
  • Tamil: “சிம்ஃபெரோப்போல்”
  • Tatar: “Акмәсҗит”
  • Tatar: “Скиф Неаполе”
  • Telugu: “సింఫేరోపోల్”
  • Thai: “ซิมเฟโรปอล”
  • Turkish: “Akmescid”
  • Turkish: “Akmescit”
  • Turkish: “Aqmescit”
  • Turkish: “Simferopol”
  • Turkish: “Symferopil”
  • Udmurt: “Симферополь”
  • Ukrainian: “Ак-Мечеть”
  • Ukrainian: “Акмесджит”
  • Ukrainian: “Акмєсджит”
  • Ukrainian: “Симферопіль”
  • Ukrainian: “Симферополь”
  • Ukrainian: “Сімферопіль”
  • Ukrainian: “Сімферополь”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Simferopol”
  • Urdu: “سمفروپول”
  • Uzbek: “Oqmasjid”
  • Uzbek: “Simferopol”
  • Veps: “Simferopol‘”
  • Veps: “Simferopol’”
  • Vietnamese: “Simferopol”
  • Walloon: “Simferopol”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Simferopol”
  • Welsh: “Simferopol”
  • Western Panjabi: “سمفروپول”
  • Wu Chinese: “辛菲罗波尔”
  • Yakut: “Симферополь”
  • Yue Chinese: “辛菲羅波爾”
  • “Simferopol”
  • “Симферопол”
  • “Сімферополь”

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