Crimea
Crimea is a peninsula jutting into the Black Sea south of Ukraine. The Crimean Peninsula is connected to Ukraine by two narrow necks of land, making it more like an island with two natural land bridges than simply a bit of land jutting out into the sea.Tap on the map to travel |
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Popular Destinations
Sevastopol
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Sevastopol, also known as Sebastopol, is an important and historical port on the Black Sea in Crimea.
Simferopol
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Simferopol is the capital city of the Crimea. View on the cross of the streets Karl Marx and Pushkina in Simferopol centrum.
Yalta
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Yalta is a resort city on the south coast of the Crimean Peninsula surrounded by the Black Sea.
Destinations
Feodosiya
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Feodosiya is a beautiful, quaint little resort town on the Black Sea coast in Crimea.
Yevpatoria
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Yevpatoria is a Ukrainian city of regional significance in Western Crimea, north of Kalamita Bay.
Bakhchysarai
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Bakhchysarai is in Crimea. Once the capital of the Crimean Tatar Khanate, it is undergoing a steady cultural rebirth since the Tatars were allowed to return from Uzbekistan in the early 1990s.
Alushta
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Alushta is a city of regional significance on the southern coast of the Crimean peninsula which…
Sudak
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Sudak is in the Crimea. It was once a fairly important city; Marco Polo mentions it and the Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta rated it one of the world's four great ports, as of the early 1300s.
Alupka
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Alupka is a city in Crimea. It is famous as a beach resort, and a favourite holiday destination for many citizens of the former Soviet countries.
Balaklava
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Balaklava is a settlement on the Crimean Peninsula and part of the city of Sevastopol.
Shcholkine
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Shcholkine is a town in eastern part of Crimean Peninsula.
Gurzuf
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Gurzuf is a resort town in Crimea. Its small size and Ottoman flavour make it distinct from nearby Yalta.
Koktebel
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Koktebel is in the Crimea. Also known as Planerskoye, is one of the most popular resort townlets in the Crimea, situated on the shore of the Black Sea about halfway between Feodosiya and Sudak.
Novyi Svet
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Novyi Svet is a small resort town in the Crimea. The town is on the Black Sea coast with rocky mountains around separating it from the civilization.
Crimea
- Type: peninsula with 1,910,000 residents
- Description: peninsula in Ukraine
- Category: disputed territory
- Location: Ukraine, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of centre
45° northLongitude of centre
34° eastPopulation
1,910,000Elevation
200 metres (656 feet)United Nations Location Code
UA CRIGeoNames ID
703883Wikidata ID
Q7835Crimea Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Ҟрым
- Afar: Qırım
- Afrikaans: Krim
- Albanian: Gadishulli i Krimesë
- Albanian: Krimea
- Amharic: ክሪሜያ
- Arabic: Crimea
- Arabic: القرم (شبه جزيرة)
- Arabic: القرم
- Arabic: جمهورية اقرم الإسلامية
- Arabic: جمهورية القرم الإسلامية
- Arabic: جمهورية القرم ذاتية الحكم
- Arabic: شبة جزيرة القرم
- Arabic: شبه جزيرة القرم
- Arabic: شبه جزيره القرم
- Aragonese: Peninsula de Crimea
- Armenian: Ղրիմ
- Asturian: Crimea
- Avaric: Хъирим
- Azerbaijani: Krım
- Azerbaijani: Krım yarımadası
- Bashkir: Ҡырым
- Basque: Krimea
- Basque: Krimeako penintsula
- Bavarian: Krim
- Belarusian: Аўтаномная Рэспубліка Крым
- Belarusian: Крым
- Belarusian: Крымскі паўвостраў
- Bengali: ক্রিমিয়া
- Bhojpuri: क्राइमिया
- Bhojpuri: क्रीमिया
- Bhojpuri: क्रीमियाई प्रायदीप
- Bosnian: Krim
- Breton: Krimea
- Bulgarian: Автономна република Крим
- Bulgarian: Крим
- Burmese: ခရိုင်းမီးယား
- Catalan: Crimea
- Cebuano: Crimean Peninsula
- Central Kurdish: کریمیا
- Chechen: ГӀирма
- Chechen: Крым
- Chinese: Krym
- Chinese: 克里木
- Chinese: 克里木半岛
- Chinese: 克里木半島
- Chinese: 克里米亚
- Chinese: 克里米亚半岛
- Chinese: 克里米亞
- Chinese: 克里米亞半岛
- Chinese: 克里米亞半島
- Chuvash: Крым
- Cornish: Krimea
- Crimean Tatar: Qırım
- Crimean Tatar: Qırım Cumhuriyeti
- Crimean Tatar: Qırım Muhtar Cumhuriyeti
- Crimean Tatar: Къырым Мухтар Джумхуриети
- Croatian: Krim
- Czech: Krym
- Czech: Krymský poloostrov
- Danish: Krim
- Dimli (individual language): Qırım
- Dutch: De Krim
- Dutch: Krim-schiereiland
- Dutch: Krim
- Eastern Mari: Крым
- Eastern Mari: Крым пелотро
- Egyptian Arabic: القرم
- Egyptian Arabic: شبه جزيرة كريميا
- Egyptian Arabic: كريميا
- English: Autonomous Republic of Crimea
- English: Cimmeria
- English: Crim.
- English: Crimean P.
- English: Crimean Peninsula
- English: Kimmeria
- English: Kimmería
- English: Kirim
- English: Qırım
- English: Republic of Crimea
- English: Taurica
- English: Taurike
- English: Taurikḗ
- Erzya: Крымень модауло
- Esperanto: Krimea Duoninsulo
- Esperanto: Krimeo
- Estonian: Krimm
- Estonian: Krimmi poolsaar
- Extremaduran: Crimea
- Faroese: Krim hálvoyggin
- Finnish: Krim
- Finnish: Krimin niemimaa
- French: Crimée
- French: République autonome de Crimée
- Gagauz: Krım
- Galician: Crimea
- Galician: Península de Crimea
- Georgian: ყირიმი
- German: Autonome Republik Krim
- German: Krim
- German: Tauris
- Gothic: 𐌺𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌼
- Greek: Κριμαία
- Greek: Κριμαϊκή Χερσόνησος
- Gujarati: ક્રિમિઅન પેનિન્સુલા
- Hawaiian: Crimea
- Hebrew: חצי האי קרים
- Hindi: क्रीमिया
- Hindi: क्रीमियाई प्रायद्वीप
- Hungarian: Krím
- Icelandic: Krímskagi
- Ido: Krimea
- Indonesian: Krimea
- Indonesian: Semenanjung Krimea
- Interlingue: Crimea
- Irish: An Chrimé
- Italian: Crimea
- Italian: Penisola di Crimea
- Japanese: クリミア
- Japanese: クリミア半島
- Japanese: クリム半島
- Javanese: Krim
- Javanese: Krimea
- Kannada: ಕ್ರಿಮಿನಿಯನ್ ಪೆನಿನ್ಸುಲಾ
- Kannada: ಕ್ರಿಮಿಯ
- Kara-Kalpak: Qırım
- Karachay-Balkar: Кърым
- Karachay-Balkar: Кърым джарымайрымкан
- Kazakh: Қырым
- Kazakh: Қырым түбегі
- Khmer: គ្រីមៀ
- Kinyarwanda: Crimea
- Kirghiz: Крым
- Kirghiz: Кырым
- Korean: 크림반도
- Kurdish: Qirim
- Kurdish: Qirîm
- Ladin: Crim
- Lak: Къирим
- Lao: ໄຄຣເມຍ (Crimea)
- Lao: ໄຄຣເມຍ
- Latin: Chersonesus Taurica
- Latin: Crimaea
- Latvian: Krima
- Ligurian: Crimea
- Limburgan: Krim
- Lingua Franca Nova: Crim
- Lithuanian: Krymas
- Lithuanian: Krymo pusiasalis
- Lombard: Crimeja
- Low German: Krim
- Lower Sorbian: Krim
- Luxembourgish: Krim
- Macedonian: Крим
- Malagasy: Krimea
- Malay: Krimea
- Malay: کريميا
- Malayalam: ക്രിമിയ
- Malayalam: ക്രിമിയൻ ഉപദ്വീപ്
- Maltese: Krimea
- Manx: Chrimeea
- Manx: Yn Chrimeea
- Marathi: क्राइमिया
- Mazanderani: کریمه
- Mazanderani: کریمه جزیره مونا
- Min Nan Chinese: Krym
- Mingrelian: ყირიმი
- Mongolian: Крымын хойг
- Mongolian: Таурика
- Moroccan Arabic: قريميا
- Neapolitan: Crimea
- Neapolitan: penisula 'e Crimea
- Northern Frisian: Krim
- Norwegian: Krim
- Norwegian Bokmål: Krim
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Krim
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Krimhalvøya
- Occitan (post 1500): Crimèa
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Taurica
- Ossetian: Хъырым
- Panjabi: ਕ੍ਰੀਮੀਆ
- Persian: شبهجزیره کریمه
- Persian: کریمه
- Pfaelzisch: Krim
- Polish: Krym
- Polish: Półwysep Krymski
- Polish: Republika Autonomiczna Krymu
- Portuguese: Crimeia
- Portuguese: península da Crimeia
- Pushto: کريميا
- Pushto: کریمیا
- Romanian: Crimeea
- Romanian: Republica Autonomă Crimeea
- Russia Buriat: Крим хахад арал
- Russia Buriat: Крым хахад арал
- Russian (Historic): Крымская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика
- Russian (Historic): Крымская область
- Russian: Автономная Республика Крым
- Russian: Крым
- Russian: Крымский полуостров
- Russian: Республика Крым
- Russian: Скифский Херсонес
- Russian: Таврида
- Russian: Таврика
- Russian: Таврический Херсонес
- Russian: Таврия
- Rusyn: Крым
- Santali: ᱠᱨᱤᱢᱤᱱ ᱯᱮᱱᱤᱱᱥᱩᱞᱟ
- Sardinian: Crimea
- Scots: Crimea
- Serbian: Krim
- Serbian: Крим
- Serbo-Croatian: Krim
- Sicilian: Crimea
- Sindhi: ڪرائميا
- Sinhala: ක්රයිමීන් අර්ධද්වීපය
- Slovak: Krym
- Slovenian: Krim
- Spanish: Crimea
- Spanish: peninsula de Crimea
- Spanish: península de Crimea
- Sundanese: Krimea
- Swahili: Krim
- Swedish: Krim
- Swiss German: Krim
- Tagalog: Crimea
- Tajik: Қрим
- Talysh: Krım
- Tamil: கிரிமியன் பெனின்சுலா
- Tamil: கிரிமியா மூவலந்தீவு
- Tatar: Qırım
- Tatar: Кырым
- Tatar: Кырым ярымутравы
- Telugu: క్రిమీన్ పెనిన్సులా
- Thai: คาบสมุทรไครเมีย
- Tosk Albanian: Krim
- Turkish: Kırım
- Turkish: Kırım Yarımadası
- Turkmen: Krym
- Udmurt: Крым
- Ukrainian: Автономна Республіка Крим
- Ukrainian: Крим
- Ukrainian: Кримський півострів
- Ukrainian: Республіка Крим
- Upper Sorbian: Krim
- Urdu: جزیرہ نما کریمیا
- Urdu: کریمیا
- Uzbek: Qrim
- Uzbek: Qrim yarim oroli
- Venetian: Crimia
- Vietnamese: Krym
- Vietnamese: bán đảo Crimea
- Vietnamese: bán đảo Crimée
- Vietnamese: bán đảo Crưm
- Vietnamese: bán đảo Krym
- Vlaams: Krim
- Vlax Romani: Krimeya
- Võro: Krõmmi puulsaar
- Walloon: Crimêye
- Waray (Philippines): Crimea
- Welsh: Crimea
- Welsh: Krym
- Welsh: Penrhyn y Crimea
- Western Armenian: Ղրիմ
- Western Frisian: Krim
- Western Panjabi: کریمیا
- Wu Chinese: 克里米亚
- Yakut: Кырыым
- Yiddish: אויטאנאמישע רעפובליק פון קרים
- Yiddish: קרים
- Yue Chinese: 克里米亞
- Zeeuws: Krim
- Bán đảo Krym
- Krîm
- Кримея
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Crimea. Photo: AxeL M, CC BY-SA 4.0.