Sukhumi

Sukhum is the capital and principal city of . It has for the better part of the last century been famous throughout the former Soviet Union as a prominent subtropical beach resort, complete with palm trees, botanical gardens, and citrus plantations, backed by the high alpine peaks of the Greater Caucasus Mountains.
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  • City with about 65,100 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 20 metres (70 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code SUI
  • Description: Capital of Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, considered part of Georgia by most countries
  • Also known as
    “Dioscurias”
    “Dioskourias”
    “Sebastopolis”
    “Sohumkale”
    “Sokhumi”
    “Souchoum Kale”
    “Ssuchum”
    “Suhum-Kale”
    “Sukhum”
    “Tskhumi”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sukhumi Botanical Garden and Sukhum.
Игорь С, CC BY 2.5.
Park
The is one of the oldest botanical gardens in the .
Halavar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Railway station
Sukhumi is a railway station in the capital of — Sukhumi.
Halavar, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bagrat's Castle is a ruined medieval castle near…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lbaashtkhwa and Abzhanda.
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Village
is a village.
Village
Linda or Ülem-Linda is a in , .
P.Kinareevski, CC BY 2.5.
Hamlet
is a small village in , the disputed region of .

Sukhumi

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Latitude
43.0031° or 43° 0′ 11″ north
Longitude
41.0197° or 41° 1′ 11″ east
UN/LOCODE
GE ABK and GE SUI
Open location code
8HM32239+7V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 790323861
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
611847
Wiki­data ID
Q40811

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Yue Chinese—“Sukhumi” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Аҟəа”
  • Abkhazian: “Аҟәа”
  • Abkhazian: “Аҧсны аҳҭны-қалақь Аҟәа”
  • Afrikaans: “Soechoemi”
  • Afrikaans: “Suchumi”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Διοσκουριάς”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Σεβαστόπολις”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Σεβαστούπολις”
  • Arabic: “ديوسكورياس”
  • Arabic: “سوخومي”
  • Aragonese: “Suhumi”
  • Aragonese: “Sujumi”
  • Aragonese: “Sukhumi”
  • Armenian: “Սուխում”
  • Asturian: “Sukhumi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Suxum”
  • Azerbaijani: “Suxumi”
  • Bashkir: “Сухум”
  • Basque: “Aqwa-Sukhum”
  • Basque: “Sokhumi”
  • Basque: “Sujumi”
  • Basque: “Sukhum”
  • Basque: “Sukhumi”
  • Belarusian: “Сухум”
  • Belarusian: “Сухумі”
  • Bengali: “সুখুমি”
  • Bengali: “সোকো্মি”
  • Betawi: “Sukumi”
  • Bosnian: “Suhumi”
  • Bulgarian: “Сухуми”
  • Catalan: “Sukhum”
  • Catalan: “Sukhumi”
  • Cebuano: “Sokhumi”
  • Central Kurdish: “سوخومی”
  • Chechen: “Сухуми”
  • Chinese: “苏呼米/蘇呼米”
  • Chinese: “苏呼米”
  • Chinese: “蘇呼米”
  • Church Slavic: “Соухоумъ”
  • Chuvash: “Сухум”
  • Croatian: “Suhumi”
  • Croatian: “Sukhumi”
  • Czech: “Aqwa”
  • Czech: “Sochumi”
  • Czech: “Suchum”
  • Czech: “Suchumi”
  • Danish: “Sukhumi”
  • Dutch: “Sebastopolis”
  • Dutch: “Sochoemi”
  • Dutch: “Sochumi”
  • Dutch: “Soechoem”
  • Dutch: “Soechoemi”
  • Dutch: “Suchum”
  • Dutch: “Suchumi”
  • Dutch: “Sukhum”
  • Dutch: “Sukhumi”
  • Eastern Mari: “Сухум”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سوخومى”
  • Erzya: “Сухум ош”
  • Esperanto: “Soĥumi”
  • Esperanto: “Suĥum”
  • Esperanto: “Suĥumo”
  • Estonian: “Akva”
  • Estonian: “Sohhumi”
  • Estonian: “Suhhum”
  • Estonian: “Suhhumi”
  • Finnish: “Sohumi”
  • Finnish: “Suhumi”
  • French: “Sokhoumi”
  • French: “Soukhoum”
  • French: “Soukhoumi”
  • French: “Suhumi”
  • French: “Sukhumi”
  • French: “Tskhoumi”
  • French: “Аҟəа”
  • French: “სოხუმი”
  • Gagauz: “Sohum”
  • Galician: “Sukhumi”
  • Georgian: “დიოსკურია”
  • Georgian: “დიოსკურიადა”
  • Georgian: “სებასტოპოლისი”
  • Georgian: “სოხუმ-კალე”
  • Georgian: “სოხუმი”
  • Georgian: “ცხომი”
  • Georgian: “ცხუმი”
  • German: “Aqwa”
  • German: “Dioskurias”
  • German: “Sochumi”
  • German: “Sokhumi”
  • German: “Suchum”
  • German: “Suchumi”
  • German: “Sukhumi”
  • Greek: “Ακουά”
  • Greek: “Διοσκουριάδα”
  • Greek: “Διοσκουριάς”
  • Greek: “Σουχούμ”
  • Greek: “Σουχούμι”
  • Greek: “Σοχούμ”
  • Greek: “Σοχούμι”
  • Gujarati: “સુખુમી”
  • Hausa: “Sukhumi”
  • Hebrew: “דיוסכוריאס”
  • Hebrew: “סבסטופוליס”
  • Hebrew: “סוֹחוּם-קַלֶה”
  • Hebrew: “סוחומי”
  • Hebrew: “סוחומקלה”
  • Hebrew: “סוכומי”
  • Hebrew: “צחומי”
  • Hindi: “सोखुमी”
  • Hungarian: “Szuhumi”
  • Icelandic: “Súkúmí”
  • Ido: “Suhumi”
  • Ido: “Sukhumi”
  • Iloko: “Sukhumi”
  • Indonesian: “Sokhumi”
  • Indonesian: “Sukhum”
  • Indonesian: “Sukhumi”
  • Inupiaq: “Sukhumi”
  • Irish: “Sukhumi”
  • Italian: “Aqãa”
  • Italian: “Dioscurias”
  • Italian: “Suchum”
  • Italian: “Suhumi”
  • Italian: “Sukhumi”
  • Japanese: “スフミ”
  • Javanese: “Sokhumi”
  • Kabardian: “Согъум”
  • Kabyle: “Suxumi”
  • Kannada: “ಸುಖುಮಿ”
  • Kazakh: “Сухум”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Sukumi”
  • Kirghiz: “Сухум”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Сухум”
  • Komi: “Акуа”
  • Komi: “Сухум”
  • Komi: “Сухуми”
  • Korean: “디오스쿠리아”
  • Korean: “디오스쿠리아스”
  • Korean: “수후미”
  • Latin: “Dioscurias”
  • Latin: “Sebastopolis Albanorum”
  • Latvian: “Akva”
  • Latvian: “Sohumi”
  • Latvian: “Suhumi”
  • Lithuanian: “Suchumas”
  • Lithuanian: “Suchumis”
  • Livvi: “Sokhumi”
  • Livvi: “Sukhumi”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Sochumi”
  • Luxembourgish: “Sochumi”
  • Macedonian: “Сохуми”
  • Macedonian: “Сухум”
  • Macedonian: “Сухуми”
  • Maithili: “सुखुमी”
  • Malay: “Sukhumi”
  • Malayalam: “സുഖുമി”
  • Manx: “Aqwa”
  • Marathi: “सुखुमी”
  • Mazanderani: “سوخومی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Sukhumi”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sukhumi”
  • Minangkabau: “Sukhumi”
  • Mingrelian: “სოხუმი”
  • Moksha: “Сухуми”
  • Mongolian: “Сухуми”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sochumi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sukhumi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aqwa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sokhumi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sukhumi”
  • Norwegian: “Sukhumi”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Aqwa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Sukhumi”
  • Ossetian: “Сухум”
  • Ossetian: “Сухуми”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੋਖ਼ੂਮੀ”
  • Persian: “سوخومی”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Sukhumi”
  • Polish: “Suchum”
  • Polish: “Suchumi”
  • Portuguese: “Sokhumi”
  • Portuguese: “Sucumi”
  • Portuguese: “Sukhum”
  • Portuguese: “Sukhumi”
  • Pushto: “سوخومي”
  • Romanian: “Sokhumi”
  • Romanian: “Suhumi”
  • Russian: “Акуа”
  • Russian: “Диоскуриада”
  • Russian: “Себастополис”
  • Russian: “Сухум-Кале”
  • Russian: “Сухум”
  • Russian: “Сухуми” (historical)
  • Russian: “Цхум”
  • Russian: “Цхуми”
  • Rusyn: “Сухумі”
  • Samogitian: “Sokomis”
  • Sardinian: “Sukhumi”
  • Scots: “Sukhumi”
  • Serbian: “Сухум(и)”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Suhumi”
  • Sicilian: “Sokhumi”
  • Silesian: “Suchumi”
  • Sinhala: “සුකුමි”
  • Slovak: “Sochumi”
  • Slovak: “Suchumi”
  • Slovenian: “Akva”
  • Slovenian: “Sohumi”
  • Slovenian: “Suhum”
  • Slovenian: “Suhumi”
  • Spanish: “Sokhumi”
  • Spanish: “Sujum”
  • Spanish: “Sujumi”
  • Spanish: “Sukhumi”
  • Swedish: “Aqwa”
  • Swedish: “Sochumi”
  • Swedish: “Suchum”
  • Swedish: “Suchumi”
  • Tajik: “Сухум”
  • Tajik: “Сухумӣ”
  • Talysh: “Suxumi”
  • Tamil: “சுகுமி”
  • Tamil: “சுக்ஹுமி”
  • Tatar: “Сухум”
  • Telugu: “సుఖుమి”
  • Thai: “ซูฮูมี”
  • Turkish: “Sohum”
  • Turkish: “Sohumi”
  • Turkish: “Sohumkale”
  • Udmurt: “Сухум”
  • Ukrainian: “Сухум”
  • Ukrainian: “Сухумі”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Sochumi”
  • Urdu: “ابخازيا کا دارالحکومت”
  • Urdu: “سخومی”
  • Uzbek: “Suxumi”
  • Veps: “Suhum”
  • Vietnamese: “Sukhum”
  • Vietnamese: “Sukhumi”
  • Volapük: “Akva”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Sukhumi”
  • Welsh: “Acwa”
  • Welsh: “Sukhum”
  • Welsh: “Sukhumi”
  • Welsh: “Swchwm”
  • Welsh: “Swchwmi”
  • Western Armenian: “Սուխում”
  • Western Armenian: “Սուխումի”
  • Western Mari: “Сухум”
  • Western Panjabi: “سخومی”
  • Wu Chinese: “苏呼米”
  • Yakut: “Сухуми”
  • Yue Chinese: “蘇呼米”

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