Volgograd Oblast
Volgograd Oblast is a region in the Lower Volga, bordering Rostov Oblast to the southwest, Voronezh Oblast to the northwest, Saratov Oblast to the north, Kazakhstan to the east, Astrakhan Oblast to the southeast, and Kalmykia to the south.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Volgograd is a large city along the west bank of the Volga River in Southern Russia. It used to be known as Stalingrad, a name which the city is still known as on several war-related dates each year.
Volgograd Oblast
- Type: State with 2,520,000 residents
- Description: federal subject of Russia
- Also known as: “Volgograd Oblast (Russia)”
- Historically known as: “Stalingrad Oblast” and “Stalingradskaya Oblast’”
- Neighbors: Astrakhan Oblast, Kalmykia, Rostov Oblast, Saratov Oblast, and Voronezh Oblast
- Categories: oblast of Russia, electoral unit, federal subject of Russia, and locality
- Location: Volga Region, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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Latitude of center
49.6048° or 49° 36′ 17″ northLongitude of center
44.2904° or 44° 17′ 25″ eastPopulation
2,520,000Elevation
161 metres (528 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 786882071OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Volgograd Oblast” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Oblast Volgograd”
- Afrikaans: “Wolgograd-oblast”
- Arabic: “فولغوغراد أوبلاست”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة فولغوغراد”
- Armenian: “Վոլգոգրադի մարզ”
- Asturian: “Óblast de Volgográu”
- Azerbaijani: “Volqoqrad vilayəti”
- Bashkir: “Волгоград өлкәһе”
- Basque: “Volgograd oblasta”
- Belarusian: “Валгаградзкая вобласьць”
- Belarusian: “Валгаградская вобласць”
- Bengali: “ভল্গোগ্রাড ওব্লাস্ট”
- Bosnian: “Staljingradska oblast”
- Bosnian: “Volgogradska oblast”
- Breton: “Oblast Volgograd”
- Bulgarian: “Волгоградска област”
- Catalan: “óblast de Volgograd”
- Catalan: “Óblast de Volgograd”
- Catalan: “província de Volgograd”
- Catalan: “Província de Volgograd”
- Cebuano: “Volgogradskaya Oblast‘”
- Cebuano: “Volgogradskaya Oblast’”
- Central Kurdish: “ئۆبلاستی ڤۆڵگۆگراد”
- Chechen: “Волгоградан область”
- Chinese: “Volgograd Chiu”
- Chinese: “伏尔加格勒州”
- Chinese: “伏爾加格勒州”
- Chuvash: “Волгоград облаçĕ”
- Crimean Tatar: “Volgograd vilâyeti”
- Croatian: “Staljingradska oblast”
- Croatian: “Volgogradska oblast”
- Czech: “Volgogradská oblast”
- Danish: “Volgograd oblast”
- Dimli (individual language): “Volgograd”
- Dutch: “Oblast Wolgograd”
- Dutch: “Wolgograd”
- Eastern Mari: “Волгоград вел”
- Erzya: “Равошонь ёнкс”
- Esperanto: “Volgograda provinco”
- Estonian: “Volgogradi oblast”
- Finnish: “Volgogradin alue”
- French: “oblast de Volgograd”
- French: “Oblast de Volgograd”
- French: “région de Volgograd”
- French: “Volgograd”
- Galician: “Óblast de Volgogrado”
- Georgian: “ვოლგოგრადის ოლქი”
- German: “Oblast Wolgograd”
- German: “Volgograd Oblast (Russia)”
- German: “Wolgograd”
- Greek: “Όμπλαστ του Βολγκογκράντ”
- Gujarati: “વોલ્ગોગ્રાદ ઓબ્લાસ્ટ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Volgograd-chû”
- Hebrew: “וולגוגרד”
- Hindi: “वोल्गोग्राद ओब्लास्ट”
- Hungarian: “Volgográdi terület”
- Icelandic: “Volgogradfylki”
- Icelandic: “Volgógradfylki”
- Ido: “Provinco Volgograd”
- Indonesian: “Oblast Volgograd”
- Ingush: “Идал-Пхьан область”
- Ingush: “Идал-Пхьен область”
- Inupiaq: “Volgagratken Nutanut”
- Irish: “Cúige Volgograd”
- Italian: “oblast‘ di Volgograd”
- Italian: “Oblast’ di Volgograd”
- Japanese: “ヴォルゴグラード州”
- Kabardian: “Волгоград област”
- Kalmyk: “Аһша төгәлң”
- Kannada: “ವೋಲ್ಗೊಗ್ರಾಡ್ ಒಬ್ಲಾಸ್ಟ್”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Volgograd oblisi”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Volgograd wa’layatı”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Volgograd wálayatı”
- Kazakh: “Волгоград облысы”
- Kirghiz: “Волгоград областы”
- Kirghiz: “Волгоград облусу”
- Komi: “Волгоград обласьт”
- Korean: “볼고그라드주”
- Ladin: “Oblast de Volgograd”
- Latin: “Regio Volgogradensis”
- Latvian: “Volgogradas apgabals”
- Lezghian: “Волгоград вилаят”
- Lezghian: “Волгограддин вилаят”
- Lithuanian: “Volgogrado sritis”
- Lombard: “Oblast de Volgograd”
- Macedonian: “Волгоградска област”
- Macedonian: “Волгоградска Област”
- Malay: “Wilayah Volgograd”
- Marathi: “वोल्गोग्राद ओब्लास्त”
- Mazanderani: “ولگاگراد اوبلاست”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Volgograd Ciŭ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Volgogradskaya Chiu”
- Mingrelian: “ვოლგოგრადიშ ოლქი”
- Moksha: “Раваошонь аймак”
- Mongolian: “Волгоград муж”
- Northern Frisian: “Wolgograd (Prowins)”
- Northern Frisian: “Wolgograd”
- Northern Luri: “ولگوگراد”
- Northern Sami: “Volgograd oblast”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Volgograd oblast”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Volgograd”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Volgograd oblast”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Volgograd”
- Norwegian: “Volgograd oblast”
- Norwegian: “Volgogradskaja oblast”
- Ossetian: “Волгограды облæст”
- Persian: “استان ولگوگراد”
- Persian: “اوبلاست ولگوگراد”
- Pfaelzisch: “Wolga”
- Polish: “Obwód wołgogradzki”
- Portuguese: “Oblast de Volgogrado”
- Pushto: “وولګوګراد ولايت”
- Romanian: “Regiunea Volgograd”
- Russia Buriat: “Волгоградай можо”
- Russian: “Волгоградская область”
- Russian: “Волгоградская Область”
- Russian: “Волгоградский регион”
- Russian: “Сталинградская область”
- Scots: “Volgograd Oblast”
- Serbian: “Staljingradska oblast”
- Serbian: “Volgogradska oblast”
- Serbian: “Волгоградска област”
- Serbian: “Стаљинградска област”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Staljingradska oblast”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Volgogradska oblast”
- Sindhi: “وولگوگراڊ اوبلاست”
- Sinhala: “වෝල්ගොග්රඩ් ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovak: “Volgogradská oblasť”
- Slovenian: “Volgograjska oblast”
- South Azerbaijani: “ولقوقراد اوبلاستی”
- Spanish: “Óblast de Volgogrado”
- Spanish: “Volgogrado”
- Swahili: “Volgograd Oblast”
- Swedish: “Volgograd oblast”
- Swedish: “Volgograd”
- Tagalog: “Volgograd Oblast”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Волгоград”
- Talysh: “Volgogradi vilojət”
- Tamil: “வோல்கோகிராட் வட்டாரம்”
- Tamil: “வோல்கோகிராத் மாகாணம்”
- Tamil: “வோல்கோக்ராட் ஒப்ளாஸ்ட்”
- Tatar: “Волгоград өлкәсе”
- Telugu: “వోల్గోగ్రాడ్”
- Thai: “แคว้นวอลโกกราด”
- Turkish: “Volgograd Oblastı”
- Udmurt: “Волгоград улос”
- Ukrainian: “Волгоградська область”
- Upper Sorbian: “Oblasć Wolgograd”
- Urdu: “وولگوگراڈ اوبلاست”
- Uzbek: “Volgograd viloyati”
- Veps: “Volgogradan agj”
- Vietnamese: “Volgograd”
- Vietnamese: “Vùng Volgograd”
- Waray (Philippines): “Volgograd Oblast”
- Welsh: “Oblast Volgograd”
- Western Frisian: “Oblast Wolgograd”
- Western Frisian: “Wolgograd”
- Western Panjabi: “ولگراڈ”
- Wu Chinese: “伏尔加格勒州”
- Yakut: “Волгоград уобалаһа”
- Yue Chinese: “伏爾加格勒州”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Volgograd Oblast”. Photo: Перебасова Евгения (Janechek), CC BY-SA 3.0.