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Yakutia

Yakutia, also known as the Republic of Sakha, is located in the , and is notable for being the world's largest subnational governing body by area.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Yakutsk and Aldan.

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is the capital city of Yakutia and one of the oldest and coldest cities of . has gained attention as potentially the coldest city in the world, but is worth a visit more for the great natural beauty of its surrounding countryside, unique cryogenic museums, and just for the spirit of adventure in the most remote lands of the world.

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is a gold-mining town and the administrative center of of the Sakha Republic, , located in the , in the River basin, on the stream Orto-Sala near its mouth in the Seligdar River, about 470 kilometers south of the republic's capital of .

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is the second largest town in the Sakha Republic, and the administrative center of Neryungrinsky District. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 61,747.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Tiksi and Lena Pillars Nature Park.

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is an urban locality and the administrative center of in the Sakha Republic, , located on the shore of the of the , southeast of the delta of the .

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The Lena Pillars are a natural rock formation along the banks of the in far eastern Siberia. The pillars are 150–300 metres high, and were formed in some of the Cambrian period sea-basins.

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The Poles of Cold are the places in the Southern and Northern hemispheres where the lowest air temperatures have been recorded.

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is an urban locality and the administrative center of in Yakutia, . Located in one of the coldest permanently inhabited regions on Earth, is approximately 870 kilometers northeast of the republic's capital, .

Kyubeme is a rural locality in Yuchyugeysky Rural Okrug of in the Sakha Republic, , located 241 kilometers from , the administrative center of the district and 94 kilometers from , the administrative center of the rural okrug.

Yakutia

Latitude of center
66.9416° or 66° 56′ 30″ north
Longitude of center
129.6424° or 129° 38′ 33″ east
Population
1,010,000
Elevation
1,205 metres (3,953 feet)
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2013162
Wiki­data ID
Q6605
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Yakutia” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Republik Sakha”
  • Afrikaans: “Jakoetië”
  • Afrikaans: “Sacha”
  • Albanian: “Sahaja”
  • Amharic: “ሳኻ ሪፐብሊክ”
  • Arabic: “ياقوتيا”
  • Armenian: “Սախա-Յակուտիայի հանրապետություն”
  • Armenian: “Սախա-Յակուտիայի Հանրապետություն”
  • Asturian: “República de Sajá”
  • Asturian: “Sajá”
  • Azerbaijani: “Saxa Respublikası”
  • Azerbaijani: “Saxa”
  • Bashkir: “Саха Республикаһы”
  • Bashkir: “Яҡут Республикаһы”
  • Basque: “Jakutia”
  • Basque: “Sakhako Errepuvlika”
  • Belarusian: “Рэспубліка Саха”
  • Belarusian: “Саха (Якуція)”
  • Belarusian: “Якутыя”
  • Belarusian: “Якуція”
  • Bengali: “সাখা”
  • Bosnian: “Republika Saha”
  • Breton: “Sac’ha”
  • Bulgarian: “Република Саха”
  • Bulgarian: “Якутия”
  • Catalan: “Iacútia”
  • Catalan: “República de Sakhà (Iacútia)”
  • Catalan: “Sakhà”
  • Cebuano: “Respublika Sakha”
  • Chechen: “Якути”
  • Chinese: “Sakha Kiōng-hô-kok”
  • Chinese: “萨哈（雅库特）共和国”
  • Chinese: “萨哈共和国”
  • Chinese: “薩哈（雅庫特）共和國”
  • Chinese: “薩哈”
  • Chinese: “薩哈共和國”
  • Chinese: “雅库特”
  • Chinese: “雅庫特”
  • Chuvash: “Якути”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Yaqutiya”
  • Croatian: “Jakutija”
  • Croatian: “Jakutska”
  • Croatian: “Saha”
  • Czech: “Jakutská republika”
  • Czech: “Jakutsko”
  • Czech: “Republika Sacha”
  • Czech: “Sacha”
  • Czech: “Sašská republika”
  • Danish: “Jakutien”
  • Danish: “Republikken Sakha”
  • Danish: “Sakha”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Cumhurêtê Saxa”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Yakutıstan”
  • Dutch: “Jakoetië”
  • Dutch: “Sacha”
  • Eastern Mari: “Якутий”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ياقوتيا”
  • Erzya: “Якутия Республикась”
  • Esperanto: “Jakutio”
  • Esperanto: “Saĥao”
  • Estonian: “Sahha”
  • Finnish: “Jakutia”
  • Finnish: “Sahan tasavalta”
  • French: “Iakoutie”
  • French: “république de Sakha”
  • French: “République de Sakha”
  • French: “république sakha”
  • French: “Sakha”
  • French: “Yakoutie”
  • Gagauz: “Saha Respublikası”
  • Galician: “República de Sakha”
  • Georgian: “სახა”
  • German: “Jakutien”
  • German: “Ostsibirien”
  • German: “Republik Sacha”
  • German: “Sacha (Jakutien)”
  • German: “Sacha”
  • German: “Sakha”
  • Greek: “Γιακουτία”
  • Greek: “Δημοκρατία των Σαχά”
  • Gujarati: “સખા રિપબ્લિક”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sakha Khiung-fò-koet”
  • Hausa: “Sakha”
  • Hebrew: “סאחה”
  • Hebrew: “רפובליקת סאחה-יקוטיה”
  • Hindi: “साख़ा गणतंत्र”
  • Hindi: “साखा गणराज्य”
  • Hungarian: “Jakutföld”
  • Hungarian: “Szaha Köztársaság”
  • Icelandic: “Saka”
  • Icelandic: “Sakha”
  • Ido: “Republiko Saha”
  • Inari Sami: “Saha täsiväldi”
  • Indonesian: “Sakha”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐋᑯᐅᑏᖅ”
  • Inupiaq: “Ekutaq”
  • Inupiaq: “Sakha”
  • Irish: “Poblacht Shacha”
  • Irish: “Poblacht Shácha”
  • Italian: “Jacuzia”
  • Italian: “Sacha-Jacuzia”
  • Italian: “Sacha”
  • Japanese: “サハ共和国 (ヤクーティア)”
  • Japanese: “サハ共和国”
  • Kalaallisut: “Ekutaq”
  • Kalmyk: “Якудин таңһч”
  • Kannada: “ಸಖ ರಿಪಬ್ಲಿಕ್”
  • Kazakh: “Саха Республикасы”
  • Kirghiz: “Якутия”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Якутму”
  • Komi: “Саха республика”
  • Korean: “사하 (야쿠티야)”
  • Korean: “사하 공화국”
  • Korean: “사하”
  • Korean: “야쿠티야”
  • Ladin: “Republica de Saha”
  • Latin: “Iacutia”
  • Latvian: “Saha”
  • Latvian: “Sahas Republika”
  • Lezghian: “Саха Республика”
  • Lithuanian: “Jakutija”
  • Lombard: “Sacha-Jacuzzia”
  • Macedonian: “Јакутија”
  • Malay: “Republik Sakha”
  • Malay: “Sakha”
  • Maori: “Hākutia”
  • Marathi: “साखा प्रजासत्ताक”
  • Mazanderani: “ساخا جمهوری”
  • Mazanderani: “یاکوتیا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Sakha”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sakha Kiōng-hô-kok”
  • Mingrelian: “სახა”
  • Mingrelian: “სახაშ რესპუბლიკა”
  • Moksha: “Республикась Саха”
  • Moksha: “Якутмастор”
  • Mongolian: “Саха”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “جمهورية ساخا”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ساخا”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ياقوتيا”
  • Northern Frisian: “Sacha”
  • Northern Sami: “Saha dásseváldi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Jakutia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sakha”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sakha”
  • Norwegian: “Sakha”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Republica de Sakha”
  • Ossetian: “Якути”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਾਖਾ ਗਣਰਾਜ”
  • Papiamento: “Republika di Sakha”
  • Persian: “یاقوتستان”
  • Polish: “Jakucja”
  • Polish: “Republika Sacha”
  • Polish: “Sacha”
  • Portuguese: “Iacútia”
  • Portuguese: “República de Sakha”
  • Portuguese: “Sakha”
  • Pushto: “د ياکوتيا جمهوريت”
  • Romanian: “Iacutia”
  • Romanian: “Republica Saha”
  • Romanian: “Saha”
  • Russia Buriat: “Заха Республика”
  • Russia Buriat: “Саха Улас”
  • Russian: “Республика Саха (Якутия)”
  • Russian: “Республика Саха”
  • Russian: “Республика Якутия”
  • Russian: “Саха (Якутия)”
  • Russian: “Саха Сирэ”
  • Russian: “Якутия”
  • Samogitian: “Jakotėjė”
  • Santali: “ᱥᱟᱠᱷᱟ ᱫᱤᱥᱚᱢ”
  • Santali: “ᱥᱟᱠᱷᱟ”
  • Santali: “ᱭᱟᱠᱩᱛᱤᱭᱟ ᱫᱤᱥᱚᱢ”
  • Scots: “Sakha Republic”
  • Serbian: “Јакутија”
  • Serbian: “Саха”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jakutija”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Jakutska”
  • Silesian: “Jakucyjŏ”
  • Sindhi: “ساکا جمهوريا”
  • Sinhala: “සඛා ජනරජය”
  • Skolt Sami: “Saha tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Slovak: “Jakutsko”
  • Slovenian: “Jakutija”
  • South Azerbaijani: “یاقوتیستان جومهوریتی”
  • South Azerbaijani: “یاکوتیا”
  • Southern Altai: “Саха Республика”
  • Spanish: “Saĥa (Jakutio)”
  • Spanish: “Sajá Yakutia”
  • Spanish: “Saja”
  • Spanish: “Sajá”
  • Spanish: “Yakutia”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵙⴰⵅⴰ”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⴰⴳⴷⵓⴷⴰ ⵏ ⵙⴰⵅⴰ”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵢⴰⴽⵓⵜⵢⴰ”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵢⴰⵇⵓⵜⵢⴰ”
  • Sundanese: “Sakha”
  • Swahili: “Yakutia”
  • Swedish: “Sacha”
  • Tagalog: “Republika ng Sakha”
  • Tajik: “Ёқутистон”
  • Talysh: “Jakutija”
  • Talysh: “Yakutiya”
  • Tamil: “சகா குடியரசு”
  • Tamil: “சாகா ரிபப்லிக்”
  • Tatar: “Саха”
  • Tatar: “Якутия”
  • Telugu: “సాఖా రిపబ్లిక్”
  • Thai: “ยาคูเตีย”
  • Thai: “สาธารณรัฐซาคา (ยาคูเตีย)”
  • Thai: “สาธารณรัฐซาคา”
  • Turkish: “Yakutistan”
  • Udmurt: “Якутия”
  • Uighur: “ياكۇتىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Республіка Саха (Якутія)”
  • Ukrainian: “Республіка Саха”
  • Ukrainian: “Саха”
  • Ukrainian: “Якутія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Jakutska”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Sacha”
  • Urdu: “سخا جمہوریہ”
  • Uzbek: “Saxa”
  • Venetian: “Sacha-Jacuzia”
  • Veps: “Saha Tazovaldkund”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Sakha”
  • Vietnamese: “Sakha”
  • Vietnamese: “Yakutia”
  • Võro: “Sahha”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Republika han Sakha”
  • Welsh: “Gweriniaeth Sakha”
  • Western Frisian: “Sacha”
  • Western Mari: “Саха Республик”
  • Western Panjabi: “یاکوتیا”
  • Wu Chinese: “萨哈（雅库特）共和国”
  • Wu Chinese: “萨哈共和国”
  • Yakut: “Саха Сирэ”
  • Yue Chinese: “薩哈”
  • “Jakotėjė”
  • “ma Saka”
  • “Sahha”

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