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.
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Tuva
- Type: republic of Russia with 322,000 residents
- Description: Republic and federal subject of Russia
- Also known as: “Cộng hòa Tuva”, “Republic of Tuva”, “Republic of Tyva”, “Republica Tuva”, “República Tuvá”, “Republik Tuwa”, “Republika Tuwy”, “Respubliko Tuvio”, “RU-TY”, “Toewa”, “Tuva (republikk)”, “Tuva dásseváldi”, “Tuva Respubliko”, “Tuva tääʹssväʹldd”, “Tuva täsiväldi”, “Tuvai Köztársaság”, “Tuvako Errepublika”, “Tuvinská republika”, “Tuvinskaya Avtonomnaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika”, “Tuwinien”, “Tuwinische Republik”, “Tuwinska republika”, “Tyva Republic”, “Տիվա Հանրապետություն”, “तुवा गणराज्य”, “துவா ரிபப்லிக்”, “ตูวา”, “ᱛᱩᱵᱷᱟ”, and “ᱴᱩᱵᱷᱟ”
- 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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Latitude
51.5833° or 51° 35′ north
Longitude
94.7917° or 94° 47′ 30″ east
Population
322,000
Elevation
798 metres (2,618 feet)
Open location code
9M3PHQMR+8M
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In Other Languages
From Abkhazian to Yue Chinese—“Tuva” goes by many names.
- Abkhazian: “Тува”
- Achinese: “Republik Tuva”
- Adyghe: “Тыва Республикэу”
- Afrikaans: “Tiwa”
- Albanian: “Tëvaja”
- Amharic: “ቱቫ”
- Arabic: “توفا”
- Armenian: “Տիվա”
- Armenian: “Տիվայի Հանրապետություն”
- Asturian: “República de la Federación Rusa de Tuvá”
- Asturian: “Tuvá”
- Azerbaijani: “Tıva”
- Bashkir: “Тыва Республикаһы”
- Basque: “Tuva”
- Belarusian: “Тува”
- Bengali: “তুভা”
- Bosnian: “Tuva”
- Breton: “Touva”
- Bulgarian: “Тува”
- Catalan: “Tuvà”
- Cebuano: “Respublika Tyva”
- Central Kurdish: “توڤا”
- Chechen: “Республика Тыва”
- Chechen: “Тува”
- Chinese: “图瓦共和国”
- Church Slavic: “Тꙑва”
- Chuvash: “Тыва”
- Crimean Tatar: “Tıva Cumhuriyeti”
- Crimean Tatar: “Tıva”
- Croatian: “Tuva”
- Czech: “Tuva”
- 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: “Tuvio”
- Estonian: “Tõva”
- Finnish: “Tuva”
- French: “République de Touva”
- French: “Touva”
- Gagauz: “Tuva”
- Galician: “República dos Tuva”
- Galician: “Tuva”
- Georgian: “ტუვა”
- German: “Tuwa”
- Greek: “Δημοκρατία της Τιβά”
- Greek: “Τουβά”
- Gujarati: “તુવા રિપબ્લિક”
- Hakka Chinese: “Tuva Khiung-fò-koet”
- Hausa: “Jamhuriyar Tyva”
- Hebrew: “טובה”
- Hindi: “तूवा”
- Hungarian: “Tuva”
- Icelandic: “Túva”
- Ido: “Republiko Tuva”
- Inari Sami: “Tuva”
- Indonesian: “Republik Tuva”
- Indonesian: “Tuva”
- Interlingue: “Tuva”
- Inupiaq: “Tiviiaq”
- Inupiaq: “Tuva”
- Irish: “Túva”
- Italian: “Tuva”
- Japanese: “トゥヴァ共和国”
- Javanese: “Republik Tyva”
- Kalmyk: “Сойд таңһч”
- Kannada: “ತುವಾ ರಿಪಬ್ಲಿಕ್”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Tiva respublikasi”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Tuva Respublikası”
- Kazakh: “Тыва”
- Kazakh: “Тыуа”
- Khakas: “Тыва”
- Kirghiz: “Тыва Республикасы”
- Kirghiz: “Тыва”
- Komi-Permyak: “Тыва”
- Komi: “Тыва”
- Korean: “투바 공화국”
- Latin: “Tuva”
- Latvian: “Tiva”
- Latvian: “Tuva”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “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”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tuva”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tyva”
- Norwegian: “Tuva”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Republica de Tovà”
- Oromo: “Republik Tyva”
- Ossetian: “Тыва”
- Panjabi: “ਟਿਵਾ ਗਣਰਾਜ”
- Persian: “تووا”
- 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: “ᱴᱩᱵᱷᱟ ᱫᱤᱥᱚᱢ”
- Scots: “Tuva”
- Serbian: “Тива”
- Serbian: “Тува”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tuva”
- Silesian: “Tuwa”
- Sindhi: “ٽووا”
- Sinhala: “ටුවා”
- Sinhala: “තුවා ජනරාජය”
- Skolt Sami: “Tuva”
- Slovak: “Tuviansko”
- Slovenian: “Tuva”
- Somali: “Jamhuuriyadda Tyva”
- South Azerbaijani: “تووا”
- Spanish: “Tuvá”
- Sundanese: “Tuva”
- Swahili: “Tuva”
- Swedish: “Tuva”
- Tagalog: “Tuva”
- Tajik: “Ҷумҳурии Тува”
- Talysh: “Tuva Respublikə”
- Tamil: “டுவா”
- Tamil: “துவா”
- Tatar: “Тыва”
- Telugu: “టువా రిపబ్లిక్”
- Thai: “สาธารณรัฐตูวา”
- Turkish: “Tuva Cumhuriyeti”
- Turkish: “Tuva”
- Turkmen: “Tuwa Respublikasy”
- Tuvinian: “Тыва Республика”
- Udmurt: “Тува”
- Udmurt: “Тыва”
- Uighur: “تۇۋا جۇمھۇرىيىتى”
- Uighur: “تۇۋا”
- Ukrainian: “Тива”
- Ukrainian: “Тува”
- Upper Sorbian: “Tuwa”
- Urdu: “تووا”
- Uzbek: “Tiva”
- Veps: “Tivan Tazovaldkund”
- Veps: “Tuvan Tazovaldkund”
- 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”
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