Sakhalin (Сахалин) | |
Information | |
Country | ![]() |
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Regional capital | Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk |
Area | 72 492 km² |
Population | 493 000 hab. (2010) |
Density | 6,8 inhab./km² |
Spindle | UTC 11:00 |
Location | |
![]() 51 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ N 143 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E | |
Kamchatka is an island located in the region ofFar eastRussian.
Understand
Regions
Cities
- 1 Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (Южно-Сахалинс) – administrative capital of Sakhalin oblast
- 2 Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinsky (Александровск-Сахалинский)
- 3 Kholmsk (Холмск)
- 4 Korsakov (Корсаков) – Port city at the southern end of Sakhalin Island, A sea link provides passenger transport from Korsakov to Wakkanai (Hokkaido), across the Strait of La Perouse.
- 5 Nogliki (Ноглики) – City created in 1940 near an oil field discovered a year earlier
- 6 Okha (Оха) – center of the oil and gas industry and the starting point of the pipeline to Komsomolsk-on-Amur
Other destinations
To go
By plane
- 1 Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Airport (IATA : UUS, ICAO: UHSS, Аэропорт Южно-Сахалинск) (10 km south of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk)