Khandyga
Sign in to saveKhandyga (; , Xaandıga) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Tomponsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, northeast of Yakutsk, the capital of the republic. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 6,638.
Key facts
- Russian inhabited locality.en_name
- Khandyga
- Russian inhabited locality.ru_name
- Хандыга
- Russian inhabited locality.loc_name1
- Хаандыга
- Russian inhabited locality.loc_lang1
- Yakut
- Russian inhabited locality.image_skyline
- Хандыга.jpg
- Russian inhabited locality.map_label_position
- top
- Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject
- Sakha Republic
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_district_jur
- Tomponsky District
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_selsoviet_jur
- Khandyga
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_selsoviet_type
- Settlement
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of1
- Tomponsky District
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of2
- Settlement of Khandyga
- Russian inhabited locality.inhabloc_cat
- Urban-type settlement
- Russian inhabited locality.mun_district_jur
- Tomponsky Municipal District
- Russian inhabited locality.urban_settlement_jur
- Khandyga Urban Settlement
- Russian inhabited locality.mun_admctr_of1
- Tomponsky Municipal District
- Russian inhabited locality.mun_admctr_of2
- Khandyga Urban Settlement
- Russian inhabited locality.pop_2010census
- 6638
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Population
- 8200
- Official website
- sakha.gov.ru/section/88/settlement/2719
- Image
- Хандыга.jpg
- Dialing code
- 411-53
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- postal code
- 678720
- inception
- 1939-01-01
- Commons category
- Khandyga
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Geography
- History
- Administrative and municipal status
- Transportation
- References
- Notes
- Sources
Khandyga (; , Xaandıga) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Tomponsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, northeast of Yakutsk, the capital of the republic. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 6,638.
==Geography== Khandyga is located on the northeast corner of the Aldan River, by a bend where the river turns from north to west. The R504 Kolyma Highway passes through the town and the Ulakhan-Bom and Sette-Daban mountain ranges rise to the east.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Khandyga” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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