Tuva
Tuva or Tyva is a region in Eastern Siberia, bordering Altai to the west, Khakassia to the northwest, Krasnoyarsk to the north, Irkutsk Oblast to the northeast, Buryatia to the east, and Mongolia to the south.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Kyzyl
Kyzyl is the capital city of the Republic of Tuva within the Russian Federation. Kyzyl's population is approximately 120,067 ;…
Tuva
- Type: republic of Russia with 322,000 residents
- Description: Republic and federal subject of Russia
- Also known as: “Republic of Tuva”, “Republic of Tyva”, “Touva”, “Tuvinskaya Avtonomnaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika”, and “Tyva Republic”
- Neighbors: Altai Republic, Buryatia, Irkutsk Oblast, Khakassia, and Krasnoyarsk Krai
- Category: federal subject of Russia
- Location: Eastern Siberia, Siberia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Tuva” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Republik Tuva”
- Adyghe: “Тыва Республикэу”
- Afrikaans: “Tiwa”
- Afrikaans: “Toewa”
- Albanian: “Tëvaja”
- Amharic: “ቱቫ”
- Arabic: “توفا”
- Armenian: “Տիվա Հանրապետություն”
- Armenian: “Տիվա”
- Armenian: “Տիվայի Հանրապետություն”
- Asturian: “República de la Federación Rusa de Tuvá”
- Asturian: “Tuvá”
- Azerbaijani: “Tıva”
- Bashkir: “Тыва Республикаһы”
- Basque: “Tuva”
- Basque: “Tuvako Errepublika”
- Belarusian: “Тува”
- Bengali: “তুভা”
- Bosnian: “Tuva”
- Breton: “Touva”
- Bulgarian: “Тува”
- Catalan: “Tuvà”
- Cebuano: “Respublika Tyva”
- Central Kurdish: “توڤا”
- Chechen: “Республика Тыва”
- Chechen: “Тува”
- Chinese: “Tuva”
- Chinese: “图瓦共和国”
- Chinese: “圖瓦”
- Chuvash: “Тыва”
- Crimean Tatar: “Tıva Cumhuriyeti”
- Crimean Tatar: “Tıva”
- Croatian: “Tuva”
- Czech: “Tuva”
- Czech: “Tuvinská republika”
- Danish: “Republikken Tyva”
- Danish: “Tuva”
- Dimli (individual language): “Cumurêtê Tuva”
- Dimli (individual language): “Tıva”
- Dutch: “Toeva”
- Eastern Mari: “Тува”
- Egyptian Arabic: “توڤا”
- Erzya: “Тува Республикась”
- Esperanto: “Respubliko Tuvio”
- Esperanto: “Tuva Respubliko”
- Esperanto: “Tuvio”
- Estonian: “Tõva”
- Finnish: “Tuva”
- French: “République de Touva”
- French: “Touva”
- Gagauz: “Tuva”
- Galician: “República dos Tuva”
- Galician: “Tuva”
- Georgian: “ტუვა”
- German: “Republik Tuwa”
- German: “RU-TY”
- German: “Tuva”
- German: “Tuwa”
- German: “Tuwinien”
- German: “Tuwinische Republik”
- Greek: “Δημοκρατία της Τιβά”
- Greek: “Τουβά”
- Gujarati: “તુવા રિપબ્લિક”
- Hakka Chinese: “Tuva Khiung-fò-koet”
- Hebrew: “טובה”
- Hindi: “तुवा गणराज्य”
- Hindi: “तूवा”
- Hungarian: “Tuva”
- Hungarian: “Tuvai Köztársaság”
- Ido: “Republiko Tuva”
- Inari Sami: “Tuva täsiväldi”
- Inari Sami: “Tuva”
- Indonesian: “Republik Tuva”
- Indonesian: “Tuva”
- Inupiaq: “Tiviiaq”
- Inupiaq: “Tuva”
- Irish: “Túva”
- Italian: “Tuva”
- Japanese: “トゥヴァ共和国”
- Kalmyk: “Сойд таңһч”
- Kannada: “ತುವಾ ರಿಪಬ್ಲಿಕ್”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Tiva respublikasi”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Tuva Respublikası”
- Kazakh: “Тыва”
- Kazakh: “Тыуа”
- Kirghiz: “Тыва Республикасы”
- Kirghiz: “Тыва”
- Komi-Permyak: “Тыва”
- Komi: “Тыва”
- Korean: “투바 공화국”
- Latin: “Tuva”
- Latvian: “Tiva”
- Latvian: “Tuva”
- Lithuanian: “Tuva”
- Livvi: “Tuvan tazavaldu”
- Lombard: “Tuva”
- Luxembourgish: “Tuwa”
- Macedonian: “Тува”
- Malay: “Tuva”
- Marathi: “तुवा प्रजासत्ताक”
- Marathi: “तुवा”
- Mazanderani: “تووا جمهوری”
- Mazanderani: “تووا”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Tuva”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tuva”
- Mingrelian: “ტუვა”
- Mongolian: “Бүгд Найрамдах Тува Улс”
- Mongolian: “Тува”
- Nepali: “टुभा गणतन्त्र”
- Northern Frisian: “Tuwa”
- Northern Sami: “Tuva dásseváldi”
- Northern Sami: “Tuva”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tuva (republikk)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tuva”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tyva”
- Norwegian: “Tuva”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Republica de Tovà”
- Ossetian: “Тыва”
- Persian: “تووا”
- Polish: “Republika Tuwy”
- Polish: “Tuwa”
- Portuguese: “Tuva”
- Pushto: “تووا”
- Romanian: “Tuva”
- Russia Buriat: “Бүгэдэ Найрамдаха Тува Улас”
- Russia Buriat: “Тыва Улас”
- Russian: “Республика Тува”
- Russian: “Республика Тыва”
- Russian: “Тува”
- Russian: “Тыва”
- Samogitian: “Tova”
- Santali: “ᱛᱩᱵᱷᱟ”
- Santali: “ᱴᱩᱵᱷᱟ ᱫᱤᱥᱚᱢ”
- Santali: “ᱴᱩᱵᱷᱟ”
- Scots: “Tuva”
- Serbian: “Тива”
- Serbian: “Тува”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tuva”
- Silesian: “Tuwa”
- Sinhala: “ටුවා”
- Sinhala: “තුවා ජනරාජය”
- Skolt Sami: “Tuva tääʹssväʹldd”
- Skolt Sami: “Tuva”
- Slovak: “Tuviansko”
- Slovenian: “Tuva”
- South Azerbaijani: “تووا”
- Spanish: “Republica Tuva”
- Spanish: “República Tuvá”
- Spanish: “Tuva”
- Spanish: “Tuvá”
- Sundanese: “Tuva”
- Swahili: “Tuva”
- Swedish: “Tuva”
- Tagalog: “Tuva”
- Tajik: “Ҷумҳурии Тува”
- Talysh: “Tuva Respublikə”
- Tamil: “டுவா”
- Tamil: “துவா ரிபப்லிக்”
- Tamil: “துவா”
- Tatar: “Тыва”
- Telugu: “టువా రిపబ్లిక్”
- Thai: “ตูวา”
- Thai: “สาธารณรัฐตูวา”
- Turkish: “Tuva Cumhuriyeti”
- Turkmen: “Tuwa Respublikasy”
- Tuvinian: “Тыва Республика”
- Udmurt: “Тува”
- Udmurt: “Тыва”
- Uighur: “تۇۋا جۇمھۇرىيىتى”
- Uighur: “تۇۋا”
- Ukrainian: “Тива”
- Ukrainian: “Тува”
- Upper Sorbian: “Tuwa”
- Upper Sorbian: “Tuwinska republika”
- Urdu: “تووا”
- Uzbek: “Tiva”
- Veps: “Tivan Tazovaldkund”
- Veps: “Tuvan Tazovaldkund”
- Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Tuva”
- Vietnamese: “Tuva”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tuva”
- Welsh: “Gweriniaeth Twfa”
- Welsh: “Twfa”
- Western Frisian: “Tûva”
- Western Panjabi: “تووا”
- Wu Chinese: “图瓦共和国”
- Yakut: “Тыва”
- Yue Chinese: “圖瓦”
- “ma Tuwa”
- “Tova”
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