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Aldan is a city located in the Sakha Republic, a region in northeastern Russia. It serves as an important settlement in this remote area of Siberia.
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- Population
- 21490
- Area
- 33
- Elevation
- 650
- Image
- Aldan station.jpg
- Dialing code
- 411 45
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- Commons category
- Aldan
- postal code
- 678900
- inception
- 1924-01-01
- native label
- Алдан
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Aldan (Russian: Алдан, IPA: [ɐlˈdan]; Yakut: Алдан) is a gold-mining town (the gorod) and the administrative center of Aldansky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located in the Aldan Highlands, in the Aldan River basin, on the stream Orto-Sala near its mouth in the Seligdar River, about 470 kilometers (290 mi) south of the republic's capital of Yakutsk. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 21,275.
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