Key facts
- Location
- Russia
- Area
- 5 km (1.9 sq mi)
- Length
- 6 km (3.7 mi)
- Width
- 1 km (0.6 mi)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Kizhi Islands as shown on a map of northern Lake Onega. Petrozavodsk is also highlighted.
Kizhi (Russian: Кижи, IPA: [ˈkʲiʐɨ]; Karelian: Kiži) is an island near the geometrical center of Lake Onega in the Republic of Karelia (Medvezhyegorsky District), Russia. It is elongated from north to south and is about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) long, 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) wide and is about 68 kilometres (42 mi) away from the capital of Karelia, Petrozavodsk.