Ushuaia
Straddling the Beagle Strait, Ushuaia is the largest city in Argentine Tierra del Fuego island, with about 75,000 residents. It is 3,260 km south of Buenos Aires.
- Type: Town with 79,500 residents
- Description: capital of Tierra del Fuego in Argentina
- Also known as: “Усвайя”, “Усваја”, “Усвая”, “Усуайя”, “Усуая”, “Ушуайя”, and “ウスアイア”
Ushuaia
- Categories: city, municipality, city of Argentina, and locality
- Location: Ushuaia Department, Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina, South America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
-54.8073° or 54° 48′ 26″ south
Longitude of center
-68.3084° or 68° 18′ 30″ west
Population
79,500
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
IATA airport code
USH
United Nations Location Code
AR USH
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Ushuaia” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Ushuaia”
- Albanian: “Ushuaia”
- Amharic: “ኡሁዋያ”
- Arabic: “أوشوايا”
- Armenian: “Ուշուայա”
- Asturian: “Ushuaia”
- Azerbaijani: “Uşuaya”
- Basque: “Ushuaia”
- Belarusian: “Ушуая”
- Bengali: “উসুয়াইয়া”
- Breton: “Ushuaia”
- Bulgarian: “Ушуая”
- Catalan: “Ushuaia”
- Cebuano: “Ushuaia (kapital sa lalawigan)”
- Cebuano: “Ushuaia”
- Central Kurdish: “ئۆشوایە”
- Chinese: “乌斯怀亚 / 烏蘇懷亞”
- Chinese: “乌斯怀亚”
- Croatian: “Ushuaia”
- Czech: “Ushuaia”
- Danish: “Ushuaia”
- Dutch: “Ushuaia”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اوشوايا”
- Esperanto: “Ushuaia”
- Estonian: “Ushuaia”
- Faroese: “Ushuaia, Argentina”
- Finnish: “Ushuaia”
- French: “Ushuaïa”
- Galician: “Ushuaia”
- Georgian: “უშუაია”
- German: “Ushuaia”
- Greek: “Ουσουάια”
- Guarani: “Uchuáia”
- Guarani: “Ushuaia”
- Gujarati: “ઉશુઆઈઆ”
- Hausa: “Ushuaia”
- Hebrew: “אושואיה”
- Hindi: “उशुआया”
- Hindi: “उशुवाया”
- Hindi: “उस्वाया”
- Hungarian: “Ushuaia”
- Icelandic: “Ushuaia”
- Ido: “Ushuaia”
- Indonesian: “Ushuaia”
- Italian: “Ushuaia”
- Japanese: “ウシュアイア”
- Javanese: “Ushuaia”
- Kalaallisut: “Ushuaia”
- Kannada: “ಉಶುವಿಯಾ”
- Kashmiri: “اوٗسوایَہ”
- Kazakh: “Ushuaia”
- Kirghiz: “Ushuaia”
- Korean: “우수아이아”
- Latin: “Ushuaia”
- Latvian: “Ušvaja”
- Ligurian: “Ushuaia”
- Lithuanian: “Ušuaja”
- Macedonian: “Ушуаја”
- Malagasy: “Ushuaia”
- Malay: “Ushuaia”
- Malayalam: “ഉഷ്യൂയിയ”
- Marathi: “उशुआइया”
- Marathi: “उश्वैया”
- Mingrelian: “უშუაია”
- Northern Frisian: “Ushuaia”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ushuaia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ushuaia”
- Norwegian: “Ushuaia”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ushuaia”
- Oromo: “Ushuaia”
- Ossetian: “Ушуая”
- Pampanga: “Usuáya”
- Panjabi: “ਉਸ਼ੁਆਇਆ”
- Persian: “اوسوایا”
- Persian: “اوشوآیا”
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Ushuaia”
- Polish: “Ushuaia”
- Portuguese: “Ushuaia”
- Pushto: “اشویا”
- Romanian: “Ushuaia”
- Russian: “Ушуая”
- Scots: “Ushuaia”
- Serbian: “Ушуаја”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ushuaia”
- Sinhala: “ඌශ්වයියා, ආර්ජන්ටිනාව”
- Sinhala: “ඌශ්වයියා”
- Slovak: “Ushuaia”
- Slovenian: “Ushuaia”
- Somali: “Ushuaia”
- South Azerbaijani: “اوسوایا”
- Spanish: “Ushuaia”
- Swahili: “Ushuaia”
- Swedish: “Ushuaia”
- Tajik: “Ushuaia”
- Tajik: “Ушуая”
- Tamil: “உஸுவயிய”
- Tatar: “Ushuaia”
- Tatar: “Ушуая”
- Telugu: “ఉషుయియా”
- Thai: “อูซัวยา”
- Turkish: “Ushuaia”
- Ukrainian: “Ушуая”
- Urdu: “اشویا”
- Urdu: “اوشوایا”
- Urdu: “وشوایا”
- Uzbek: “Ushuaia”
- Vietnamese: “Ushuaia”
- Volapük: “Ushuaia”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ushuaia”
- Welsh: “Ushuaia”
- Western Frisian: “Ushuaia”
- Western Panjabi: “اوشوآئیا”
- Wu Chinese: “乌斯怀亚”
- Yue Chinese: “烏斯懷亞”
- “Ushuaia”
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