Simferopol
Simferopol, also known as Aqmescit, is the second-largest city on the Crimean Peninsula. The city, along with the rest of Crimea, is internationally recognized as part of Ukraine, but controlled by Russia.
- Type: City with 341,000 residents
- Description: city in Crimea, Ukraine
- Also known as: “Akmescit” and “Symferopil”
- Postal codes: 295000-295490
Places of Interest
Highlights include Crimean Tatar Music and Drama Theatre and Scythian Neapolis.
Crimean Tatar Music and Drama Theatre
Theater building
Scythian Neapolis
Kebir Mosque, Simferopol
Mosque
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Old Simferopol and Султанский луг.
Old Simferopol
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
OpenStreetMap feature
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GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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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: “Simferòpill”
- 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: “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: “Szimferopol”
- Icelandic: “Símferopol”
- Indonesian: “Simferopol”
- Interlingue: “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”
- Kannada: “ಸಿಮ್ಫೇರ್ಪೋಲ್”
- Kazakh: “Ақмешіт (Қырым)”
- Kazakh: “Ақмешіт”
- Kirghiz: “Ак-Мечит”
- Kirghiz: “Симферополь”
- Komi: “Симферополь”
- Korean: “심페로폴”
- Kurdish: “Sîmfêropol”
- Ladin: “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: “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”
- Portuguese: “Sinferopol”
- 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”
- Slovenian: “Simferopol”
- South Azerbaijani: “سیمفروپول”
- Spanish: “Simferópol”
- Swahili: “Simferopol”
- Swedish: “Akmescid”
- Swedish: “Aq Mechet”
- Swedish: “Kermencik”
- Swedish: “Kermençik”
- Swedish: “Simferopol”
- Talysh: “Simferopol”
- Tamil: “சிம்ஃபெரோப்போல்”
- Tatar: “Акмәсҗит”
- Tatar: “Скиф Неаполе”
- Telugu: “సింఫేరోపోల్”
- Thai: “ซิมเฟโรปอล”
- Turkish: “Akmescid”
- Turkish: “Akmescit”
- 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”
- “Aqmescit”
- “Simferopol”
- “Симферопол”
- “Симферопољ”
- “Сімферополь”
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