Central Ukraine
Zhytomyr Oblast
Zhytomyr Raion

Zhytomyr

Zhytomyr, Zhitomir, Zhitomir) is a city in . The administrative center of the Zhytomyr region and Zhytomyr district. It's in northern Ukraine, 150 km west of Kyiv centre. Population: 271,000 inhabitants.
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  • Type: City with 268,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Zhytomyr Oblast in northwestern Ukraine
  • Also known as: “Zhitomir”, “Žitomir”, “Žitómir”, “Żytomierz”, and “Žytómyr”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Museum of Cosmonautics and Zhytomyr Local History Museum.

Museum
Photo: Texnik, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Serhiy Pavlovych Korolyov is a technology museum in Zhytomyr, , dedicated to Serhiy Korolyov. Korolyov led the Sputnik project and was chief engineer for the Soviet Union's rocket and space program from the late 1950s until his death in 1966.

Museum
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Zarichany and Pryvokzalna Square, Zhytomyr.

Village
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is a village.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Quarter
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is a quarter.

Zhytomyr

Latitude
50.2601° or 50° 15′ 36″ north
Longitude
28.6696° or 28° 40′ 11″ east
Population
268,000
Elevation
236 metres (774 feet)
IATA airport code
ZTR
United Nations Location Codes
UA ZKC and UA ZTR
Open location code
9G2C7M69+2V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 252098339
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
686967
Wiki­data ID
Q156713
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Zhytomyr” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جيتومير”
  • Arabic: “زهيتومير، زهيتوميرسكا”
  • Armenian: “Ժիտոմիր”
  • Asturian: “Zhytómyr”
  • Azerbaijani: “Jitomir”
  • Bashkir: “Житомир”
  • Basque: “Zhitomir”
  • Basque: “Zhytomyr”
  • Belarusian: “Жытомір”
  • Bengali: “জিতোমির”
  • Breton: “Jitomir”
  • Bulgarian: “Житомир”
  • Catalan: “Jitòmir”
  • Catalan: “Jytómyr”
  • Catalan: “Zhytomyr”
  • Cebuano: “Zhytomyr (kapital sa lalawigan sa Ukranya)”
  • Cebuano: “Zhytomyr”
  • Chechen: “Житомир”
  • Chinese: “怡陀米亞”
  • Chinese: “日托米尔”
  • Chinese: “日托米爾”
  • Church Slavic: “Житомир”
  • Church Slavic: “Житомиръ”
  • Chuvash: “Житомир”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Jıtomır”
  • Croatian: “Žitomir”
  • Czech: “Žitoměř”
  • Czech: “Žitomir”
  • Czech: “Žitomír”
  • Czech: “Žitomíř”
  • Czech: “Žytomyr”
  • Danish: “Sjitomir”
  • Danish: “Zhytomyr”
  • Danish: “Zjitomir”
  • Danish: “Zjytomyr”
  • Dutch: “Zhitomir”
  • Dutch: “Zjitomir”
  • Dutch: “Zjytomyr”
  • Eastern Mari: “Житомир”
  • Erzya: “Жытомыр”
  • Esperanto: “Ĵitomir”
  • Esperanto: “Ĵitomiro”
  • Estonian: “Žitomir”
  • Estonian: “Žitomõr”
  • Estonian: “Žõtomõr”
  • Finnish: “Zhitomir”
  • Finnish: “Zhytomyr”
  • Finnish: “Žitomir”
  • Finnish: “Zytomyr”
  • Finnish: “Žytomyr”
  • French: “Jitomir”
  • French: “Jytomyr”
  • Galician: “Zhitómir”
  • Georgian: “ჟიტომირი”
  • German: “Jitomir”
  • German: “Schitomir”
  • German: “Schytomyr”
  • German: “Shitomir”
  • German: “Zhitomir”
  • German: “Zhytomir”
  • Greek: “Ζιτόμιρ”
  • Gujarati: “ઝીટોમિર”
  • Hebrew: “ז’יטומיר”
  • Hebrew: “זיטאמיר”
  • Hebrew: “זיטומיר”
  • Hindi: “ज़हयटमीर”
  • Hungarian: “Zsitomir”
  • Icelandic: “Zjytomyr”
  • Icelandic: “Zjytómýr”
  • Indonesian: “Zhytomyr”
  • Irish: “Zhytomyr”
  • Italian: “Shitomir”
  • Italian: “Zhitomir”
  • Italian: “Zhytomyr”
  • Italian: “Žitomir”
  • Italian: “Żytomierz”
  • Italian: “Zytomyr”
  • Italian: “Žytomyr”
  • Japanese: “ジトーミル”
  • Japanese: “ジトームィル”
  • Japanese: “ジトミール”
  • Japanese: “ジトミェシ”
  • Japanese: “ジトミェシュ”
  • Japanese: “ジトミル”
  • Kannada: “ಝೈಟೋಮಿರ್”
  • Kazakh: “Житомир”
  • Kirghiz: “Житомир”
  • Komi: “Житомир”
  • Korean: “지토미르”
  • Kotava: “Jitomir”
  • Kurdish: “Jitomir”
  • Kurdish: “Jîtomîr”
  • Ladin: “Zhytomyr”
  • Latin: “Zitomiria”
  • Latin: “Zytomiria”
  • Latvian: “Žitomira”
  • Lithuanian: “Žitomiras”
  • Lithuanian: “Žitomyras”
  • Lithuanian: “Žytomyras”
  • Lombard: “Žytomyr”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Žytomyr”
  • Macedonian: “Житомир”
  • Malay: “Zhytomyr”
  • Malayalam: “സൈറ്റോമിർ”
  • Marathi: “झीटोमिर”
  • Mingrelian: “ჟიტომირი”
  • Moksha: “Жытомыр”
  • Mongolian: “Житомир”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sjitomir”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Zhitomir”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Zhytomyr”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Zjitomir”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Zjytomyr”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Żytomierz”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sjitomir”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zjyitomir”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zjytomyr”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Żytomierz”
  • Norwegian: “Zjytomyr”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Jytomyr”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Zhytòmyr”
  • Ossetian: “Житомир”
  • Persian: “زیتومیر”
  • Persian: “ژیتومیر”
  • Polish: “Żytomierz”
  • Portuguese: “Jitomir”
  • Portuguese: “Zhytomyr”
  • Portuguese: “Żytomierz”
  • Romanian: “Jitomir”
  • Romanian: “Jîtomîr”
  • Romanian: “Zhytomyr”
  • Russian: “Житомель”
  • Russian: “Житомир”
  • Rusyn: “Житомир”
  • Rusyn: “Жытомир”
  • Scots: “Zhytomyr”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Zhytomyr”
  • Serbian: “Žitomir”
  • Serbian: “Житомир”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Žitomir, Ukrajina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Žitomir”
  • Silesian: “Żytomyr”
  • Sinhala: “සයිටෝමයිර්”
  • Slovak: “Žitomir”
  • Slovak: “Žitomír”
  • Slovak: “Žytomyr”
  • Slovenian: “Žitomir”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ژیتومیر”
  • Spanish: “Yitomir”
  • Spanish: “Zhitómir”
  • Spanish: “Zhytomyr”
  • Spanish: “Zhytómyr”
  • Spanish: “Žytómyr”
  • Swahili: “Zhytomyr”
  • Swedish: “Zjitomir”
  • Swedish: “Zjytomyr”
  • Tajik: “Житомир”
  • Tamil: “சைடோமிர்”
  • Tamil: “சைதோமிர் நகரம்”
  • Tatar: “Житомир”
  • Telugu: “జహటమీర్”
  • Thai: “ฌือตอมือร์”
  • Turkish: “Jitomir”
  • Turkish: “Jıtomır”
  • Udmurt: “Житомир”
  • Ukrainian: “Житомир”
  • Ukrainian: “Жито́мир”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Žitomir”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Žytomyr”
  • Urdu: “ژیتومر”
  • Uzbek: “Jitomir”
  • Vietnamese: “Zhytomyr”
  • Volapük: “Jütomür”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Zhytomyr”
  • Welsh: “Zhytomyr”
  • Western Panjabi: “ژیتومر”
  • Western Panjabi: “ژیتومیر”
  • Wu Chinese: “日托米尔”
  • Yakut: “Житомир”
  • Yiddish: “זיטאמיר”
  • Yiddish: “זשיטאמיר”
  • Yue Chinese: “治托米爾”

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